Egg Bread

To make another Soft Cake or tart without Cheese, which Cake the Flemmings do call Bread Dipped in Eggs

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    large round loaf
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Great Cooks and Their Recipes

By Anne Willan

Published 1977

  • About

The following recipe comes from The Perfect Cook, a translation of Le Pastissier françois that was published in London in 1656, making it one of the very first French cookbooks to appear in England. The detailed instructions illustrate clearly the difference in style between Le Pastissier and Le Cuisinier françois – such precision was not to be equaled until the time of Carême, 150 years later.

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