Bread and Pear Gratin, a recipe from The Worldwide Gourmet

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Bread and Pear Gratin Recipe

Recipe

Total time: 30 to 60 minutes

Preheat the oven to 220° C (450° F)
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 35-40 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients

Ingredients for 10 servings

- 500 g (18 oz.) milk buns or Bread

- 75 g (5 tbsp.) butter

- 1.7 kg (3 3/4 lb.) Pears

- 800 ml (3 1/4 cups) apple juice

- 150 g (5 oz.) hazelnuts

- 250 g (9 oz.) chopped chocolate

Custard

- 300 g (1 1/4 cups) eggs

- 1 liter (4 cups) milk

- 25 g (1 oz.) vanilla sugar

- 75 g (5 tbsp.) sugar

Method

Slice the bread thinly (5 mm); brown in butter.
Peel the pears; core and dice them; poach in the apple juice and set aside; pour the juice over the bread. Coarsely chop the hazelnuts.
Combine the bread, pears, hazelnuts and chocolate. Pour into individual greased gratin dishes.
Combine the ingredients for the custard and pour over top.
Bake in a 220° C (450° F) oven for 25 minutes.

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Photo and collaboration: Swiss Bread Information

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