Anne Willan

Croûtes Jurassiennes

Cheese and Bacon Toasts

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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top 1000French Regional Cooking
French Regional Cooking

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

Fried toasts like these can also be topped with mushrooms in a cream sauce – a good way of using stale bread.

Ingredients

4 slices white bread cut <

Method

Cut the crusts from the bread and slightly hollow the centre of each slice to form a case. Heat two-thirds of the butter in a frying pan, add the bread cases and brown them on both sides; drain on paper towels. If the bacon is salty, blanch* it.

Heat the remaining butter in a small saucepan, add the onion and cook over a low fire, stirring until soft but not brown. Stir in the bacon and