Peasant Girl with Veil

Name: Peasant Girl with Veil
Ingredients: 1 tbsp brandy; 2 scant tbsp brown sugar; 300ml/½ pint double cream, whipped; 750g/1½lb apples, peeled, cored and sliced; 55g/2oz butter; 2 heaped tbsp brown breadcrumbs; 115g/4oz dark chocolate, grated

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1998

About

Not a dish for the average peasant girl, I wouldn’t think, except maybe in Normandy. There she could find her apples and her Calvados which can be used instead of brandy, and good luck to her.

Ingredients

2 heaped tbsp brown breadcrumbs
55g/2oz butter<

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Fry breadcrumbs in butter until golden brown. Cook the apples with the brown sugar in a little water and when cooked stir in the brandy. In a glass dish arrange alternate layers of breadcrumbs and apples, finishing with a layer of breadcrumbs. Cover the top layer with the whipped double cream and sprinkle the grated chocolate over the top.