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Bread dumplings poached in milk, with egg custard

  • Serves 4 (about 16 dumplings)
  • about 1 hour, plus 2 hours' soaking
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1796Peena klutschki.

Modernizētslpp. 217–218 · PDF 231–232
4 porcijas

The book gives 2 hours' soaking, a quarter of an hour's boiling and 1 whole egg besides the yolks; the other amounts are ours.

Method

8 soļi
  1. Soak the bread in the milk for 2 hours in the fridge.
  2. Beat the butter with the yolks until pale and creamy, then beat in the whole egg.
  3. Squeeze the bread firmly and throw away the soaking milk. Beat the bread into the butter mixture with the mace and salt until smooth.
  4. Bring the poaching milk to the boil in a wide, heavy pan, then turn it down to a bare simmer. Poach a teaspoonful as a test; if it falls apart, beat in a few dry breadcrumbs.
  5. Scoop tablespoons of the mixture between two wet spoons and slide them into the milk. Poach for 15 minutes, turning them once. Keep the milk barely trembling; it boils over and scorches easily.
  6. Lift the dumplings into a warm dish. Measure out 500 ml of the poaching milk.
  7. Whisk the eggs with the sugar, whisk in the warm milk and return it to the pan. Stir constantly over low heat until it thickens enough to coat the spoon, about 80 °C. Don't let it boil, or it will curdle.
  8. Pour the custard over the dumplings and serve warm.

Notes

What the book says vs. what we added

the book soaks white bread in fresh milk for 2 hours, beats butter with egg yolk until it looks like cream, beats in one more egg, squeezes the bread and mixes it all with crushed mace. The dumplings boil in milk for a quarter of an hour. To eat them on their own, the milk they cooked in is beaten with eggs and sugar, heated on the coals and stirred until thick, and poured over the dumplings. The amounts of bread, butter and yolks, the salt and the test dumpling are ours.

Texture

bread, butter and egg alone make a very soft dumpling. The test in step 4 tells you whether it needs the extra crumbs.

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