Bread and Apple Bake

Name: Bread and Apple Bake (Scharlotka s Jablokami)
Cuisine: Russian
Ingredients: 60 g/2¼ oz/4½ tbsp cold butter; 1 egg; 150 ml/¼ pint/⅔ cup milk; 10 slices of 2-3 days old white bread; 6-8 apples; 130 g/4½ oz/⅔ cup caster (superfine) sugar

Scharlotka s Jablokami

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from My Russian Grandmother's Kitchen

By Elena Makhonko

Published 2015

About

Bread has always been the basic, staple food of Russian cuisine. It is treated with great respect, bought fresh each day and used to the last crumb. This recipe makes a new dish out of old bread – frugal, simple but very good.

Ingredients

60 g/2¼ oz/4½ tbsp cold butter
1

Europe
Russia
Dessert
Vegetarian
Low fat
Low calorie

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Use 10g/¼oz/1½ tsp of the butter to grease a 20cm/8in flan tin (pan). Put the egg and milk in a bowl and whisk together.

Energy 245kcal/1038kJ; Protein 4.6g; Carbohydrate 41.8g, of which sugars 26.1g; Fat 7.9g, of which saturates 4.3g; Cholesterol 41mg; Calcium 77mg; Fibre 1.6g; Sodium 240mg.