Name: Pear and bread cake (Trattoria La Madia, Brione (Brescia))
Prep time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 250 ml milk; 150 g almonds; 400 g whole cane sugar; 4 eggs; 2 tbsps honeydew (or honey); 50 g granulated sugar; 4 pears; 400 g dry bread, ideally sourdough and/or organic; 200 ml single cream; 80 g butter

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

Recipes from Milan and Lombardy

By Slow Food

Published 2018

About

Ingredients

80 g butter
400 g dry bread, ideally sourdough and/or organic

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Soften the butter at room temperature. Coarsely chop the bread and leave to soak in a mixture of cream and milk. When softened, stir to ensure all the bread is soaked.

Stir in the butter, eggs and cane sugar. Peel and chop the pears, then add