Frances Bissell

Toast Rothschild

Preparation info

  • Serves

    2

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

  • About

I base this recipe on a dish I ate at Le Grand Véfour in Paris. This was my first visit to a Michelin three-star restaurant, as it was then. The food was memorable, but this dish particularly so.

Ingredients

  • 2 slices of bread, 2 in / 5 cm. thick
  • 2½ oz /

Method

Trim the crusts from the bread to make neat squares. Remove some of the crumb from each slice, leaving a hollow in the centre. Melt 1 oz / 30 g of the butter, mix it with the oil and brush over the b