Preparation time approximately 30 minutes – Toasting/baking time approximately 25 minutes – quantities for a 2 litre shallow baking dish, greased. Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 350 g white bread, sliced
• 2 tablespoons butter, soft
• 100 ml dry white wine, preferably Chasselas
• 300 ml milk
• 3 eggs
• 150 g semi-hard cheese finely grated
• 3/4 teaspoon salt, a little pepper
• 200 ml double cream, stiffly beaten

Method:

• Lay sliced white bread on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment
• Spread butter on bread
• Toast bread for approximately 5 minutes in middle of oven pre-heated to 240 C.
• Remove toast from oven, reduce heat to 200 C.
• Arrange bread in layers in the prepared baking dish, overlapping slices slightly
• Pour over 100 ml of Chasselas or dry white wine
• To make cheese mixture, mix in a measuring jug the milk, eggs, cheese, salt & pepper.
• Stiffly beat 200 ml of double cream and fold into the cheese mixture in the measuring jug.
• Pour the cheese mixture with folded in double cream over the toasted slices.
• Bake for approximately 20 minutes in the middlle of a preheated oven to 200 C

Tips:

• Bread can be toasted unbuttered in a toaster
• ideal way to use up stale bread!

Per person: 41 g fat, 27 g protein, 52 g carbohydrate, 701 calories – recipe & photo from The Swiss Cookbook by Betty Bossi