Cherries Hot

Name: Cherries Hot
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: ¼ cup (60 g) castor sugar; 4 slices bread from a large white loaf, each about ¼ inch thick; 3 tablespoons (45 g) butter; ¾ lb (360 g) stoned ripe cherries, white or black; 1¼ cups (3 dl) milk; 1 egg

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

English Provincial Cooking

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1980

About

Panperdy (a corruption of Pain Perdu, lost bread) was made from Norman times. Cherries Hot derives from it.

Ingredients

¾ lb (360 g) stoned ripe cherries, white or black
1

Europe
United Kingdom
Engalnd
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Beat the egg into the milk with 1 tablespoon (15 g) of the sugar. Cut the bread slices in half and soak in the egg and milk for 5 minutes, changing the top slice to the bottom after 2 or 3 minutes so th