Name: Peasant Girl with Veil
Ingredients: brown sugar; apples; brandy; dark chocolate; double cream; butter; brown breadcrumbs

Jennifer Paterson

Peasant Girl with Veil

Preparation info

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1998

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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
750g/1½lb apples, peeled, cored and sliced
2 scant tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp brandy
300ml/½ pint double cream, whipped
115g/4oz dark chocolate, grated

Dessert

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.