Nov 12 2008
Apple of my eye
A sweet little pudding and the last recipe in the book. Perhaps we ought to have saved it till the end?
- Vanilla Apples with Sweetheart Croûtes
We’d been meaning to make this pudding for ages. Back in the old flat, in the days before Dougal made bread, I even went as far as buying some pan bread when I saw it reduced in Somerfields late one night. What held me back though, was that I did not own a heart shaped cookie cutter. I had a star, and at first thought that would do, you know, “Sweet Star Croûtes” but ultimately realised it had to be done proper.
Thankfully, at my birthday, the boys done me proud. I say boys, as both Dougal and my brother bought me a range of cookie cutters, both including hearts. This is very exciting!
So, I commissioned D to make me a pain de mie (a high class sliced white loaf) and off we went!
I had great fun stamping heart shapes out of the bread, and you’ll be pleased to hear we blitzed the edges up for breadcrumbs and froze them for a later date.
Despite having been looking forward to this probably since I got the book, since before the Challenge began, I was amazed by how much I enjoyed this recipe. I suppose you can’t really go wrong with good bread, fresh apple, butter, sugar and good vanilla extract but I really can’t say how lovely this was. A proper treat. We’ll be back, I know it.
gosh yes…. this sounds excellent. Sadly, I have no pain de mie (just pain de me, bah!)… but there again, I’m sure I could o that. After all I cooked a quiche last night. Never done that before. And the pastry was lovely.
Mm, quiche is good fun to make. Did you bake it blind? I never had time to do that in the past so I don’t know if it makes any difference. Though I think my pastries have been slightly soggier than they ought to be. Still, it’s been ages since I made a quiche.