Targol wrote:Christophe wrote: The bedleman you know?
Well no, I personally, I do not know and I have not managed to find much on Gogol on this subject apart from a cemetery and genealogy. Wouldn't you have a link or a bit of additional explanation?
Normal I was wrong in the spelling (it's Alsaco-German) apparently it would be: "bedelman"
The French name is "beggar" and here is the recipe (finally a recipe):
MENDIANT or bedelman recipe from my mother-in-law.
you take a large bowl and cut the stale bread into large pieces and soak it in warm milk (depending on the amount of bread) about 50cl
the bread should just be moist. Reduce it into a paste and add
3 eggs / cinnamon / custard powder or pudding
apples or raisins or dried fruit (as appropriate)
some schnapps and sugar
mix everything, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and butter and put in the oven at approx. 175 °
prick the cake it must come out dry
There are other uses of racis bread on http://www.isaveurs.com/forums/read.php?79,3379,3398
ps: in the same genre there is always the French toast but the bedelman is better !! Long live the recipes of grand mothers!