Gâteau de Fruits Battus

Name: Gâteau de Fruits Battus (Broken Fruit Pudding)
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 4 tbsp/60 ml beaumes-de-venise wine; 4 eggs; 1 pt/600 ml milk; 2 oz/60 g sugar; ½ tsp/2.5 ml nutmeg; 2 oz/60 g flour, sifted with a pinch of salt; 2 oz/60 g flour, sifted with a pinch of salt; 1 ½ lb/700 g Muscat grapes, washed & dried

Broken Fruit Pudding

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Table in Provence

By Leslie Forbes

Published 1987

About

In France’s Limousin region, cooks made this baked pudding with black cherries. In Provence, it is often made with muscat grapes & scented with fragrant Beaumes-de-Venise wine. Simone’s Aunt Julie wouldn’t call it a recipe, “It’s just to use up broken, over-ripe fruit”.

Ingredients

1 ½ lb/700 g Muscat grapes, washed & dried
2 oz/60

Europe
France
Dessert
Provence
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 375°F/190°C/gas 5. Place grapes in a well buttered shallow baking dish. Mix together the flour, sugar & nutmeg & beat in the eggs one at a time, alternating with the milk. Stir in the wine & sieve the mixture over the grapes.