Name: Zuppa Pavese
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: Salt & freshly ground black pepper; 1 litre (1¾ pints, 4 cups) Meat Stock or, better still, consommé; 8 slices of white country-style bread, cut 1cm (½ in) thick; 100 g (4 oz, 1 cup) Parmesan, grated; 6 fresh eggs; 50 g (2 oz, 4 tablespoons) unsalted butter

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Passion for Cheese

By Paul Gayler

Published 1997

About

This rustic Italian soup is very nourishing and quick and easy to make. All you do is pour a well-flavoured broth over slices of fried bread and then slip in an egg, which cooks in the heat of the broth. However, such simplicity relies on the finest ingredients for its success: don’t make the soup unless you have homemade stock, good country-style bread and free-range eggs.