Bread and Cheese Pudding (Pudding de Fromage au Pain)

Ingredients

• Thin slices of stale bread
• Butter
• Grated cheese
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 decilitre and a half of Consommé blanc

Instructions

1. Butter thin slices of stale bread and sprinkle them with grated cheese.
2. Arrange them in a pie dish until it is three-quarters filled.
3. Slake 4 egg yolks with a decilitre and a half of Consommé blanc — proportions suited to a dish holding half a litre — and pour this mixture over the bread.
4. Sprinkle copiously with grated cheese.
5. Bake in the oven and glaze at the last moment.