Try using the most affordable ingredients to create a truly great dish with extraordinary taste. This is charlotte, and it is very appetizing.
It is necessary
- - 2 stale white loaves without a crust;
- - 1 kg of dense pears;
- - 2 oranges;
- - 250 g butter;
- - 300 g of sugar;
- - 3 tablespoons of vanilla sugar;
- - 4 large eggs;
- - 800 ml of cream (fat content 30-35%);
- - milk (if necessary)
Instructions
Step 1
Soften butter at room temperature. Grease a large baking dish with butter and lightly sprinkle with sugar.
Step 2
Wipe the zest off the orange, squeeze the juice. Set aside the juice for now. Mix orange zest with sugar, add vanilla sugar.
Step 3
Beat eggs with half the sugar mixture. Continuing to stir, gradually pour in the cream. Continue whisking until smooth.
Step 4
Cut the bread into pieces 1 cm thick. Then grease each piece of loaf with butter on one side only.
Step 5
Line the bottom and sides of the pan with bread, dipping the non-oiled side into the egg mixture.
Step 6
Then place the pieces slightly overlapping with the oily side down. Peel the pears, cut in half, and remove the core.
Step 7
Cut the flesh across into thin slices. Pour orange juice over the pears.
Step 8
Place half of the pears in the pan, sprinkle with half of the remaining sugar mixture.
Step 9
On the pears in the same way, dipping them into the egg mixture, overlap the pieces of loaf.
Step 10
Pour the remaining egg and cream mixture over the charlotte, pressing the bread down with your hands. Place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C.
Step 11
Bake, pouring milk over if the bread dries up, for 45 minutes. Serve the charlotte warm.
