Modane Sweet Bread

Name: Modane Sweet Bread (Le Pain de Modane)
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: ⅛ teaspoon salt; 1 envelope active dry yeast; 10 egg yolks; ⅓ cup sugar; 6 ounces almond paste; 3 tablespoons Grand Marnier; 3 tablespoons warm milk; 2 cups unsifted all-purpose flour; 2 tablespoons cornstarch; ¾ cup melted unsalted butter; ¾ cup diced candied melon; 1 egg yolk

Le Pain de Modane

Preparation info

6 to 8
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Savoie

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1989

About

This is not bread, as the name seems to indicate, but a cake made with a different brioche dough. It is a specialty of Modane, the train station on the border between France and Italy and the entrance to the Upper Maurienne. This is my interpretation of the pastry sold in Modane:

Ingredients

For the Brioche-Type Cake

10 egg yolks
⅓ cup sugar
⅛ teaspoon

Europe
France
Italy
Modane
Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian
Savoie
Mediterranean

Method

To prepare the batter, beat the egg yolks, sugar, and salt until the mixture is very white and forms a ribbon falling from the beater. Meanwhile dissolve the yeast into the warm milk and let it bubble. Add the yeast mixture to the eggs, sift the flour and cornstarch mixed into the batter, and beat in the butter, using a spatula, not an electric mixer, or a whisk, until the dough acquires