Poor knights with apples

Name: Poor knights with apples (Armer Ritter mit Apfelragout)
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 2 eggs; 400 ml/14 fl oz/1⅔ cups milk; grated rind of 1 lemon; ½ tsp vanilla extract; pinch of salt; 60 ml/4 tbsp breadcrumbs; 4 thick slices of day-old white bread; 50 g/2 oz/4 tbsp butter; 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar mixed with 5 ml/1 tsp ground cinnamon; 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar mixed with 5 ml/1 tsp ground cinnamon; 10 ml/2 tsp caster sugar; 200 ml/7 fl oz/scant 1 cup apple juice; juice of 1 lemon; 4 apples, peeled, cored and diced; 5 ml/1 tsp raisins

Armer Ritter mit Apfelragout

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Germany

By Mirko Trenkner

Published 2009

About

This recipe comes from Mecklenburg, West Pomerania and Brandenburg. Armer Ritter means ‘poor knights’, perhaps because it’s a way of using up the previous day’s bread. Children love it for breakfast as well as dessert.

Ingredients

2 eggs
400 ml/14 fl oz/1⅔ cups mi

Europe
Germany
Brandenburg
West Pomerania
Breakfast
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Make the apple compote first. Heat the sugar in a pan over medium heat until it caramelizes. When it turns golden brown, plunge the base of the pan into a bowl of cold water to stop the sugar burning. Stir the apple juice and lemon juice into the caramel. Stir in the apples and raisins and cook for 6-7 minutes. Remove from the heat and leave to cool.