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By Jan Cheshire
A FEW years ago, I went to a restaurant in Melbourne where I enjoyed a very delicious dessert called cherry clafoutis. Clafoutis is a French dish, with a batter that consists of eggs, sugar, milk, and flour.
A FEW years ago, I went to a restaurant in Melbourne where I enjoyed a very delicious dessert called cherry clafoutis. Clafoutis is a French dish, with a batter that consists of eggs, sugar, milk, and flour.
Recently I had a go at making it with cherries that a friend had given me. I must admit I didn’t enjoy pitting the cherries, and I thought plums might be easier. Of course you must still stone the plums.
This recipe is too delicious and too easy not to try!
PLUM CLAFOUTIS serves 4-6
Ingredients
125ml of milk
125ml of double cream
2-3 drops of vanilla essence
4 free-range eggs
170 grams of caster sugar
1 tablespoon of plain flour
30 grams of butter
500 grams of plums, cut in half, stones removed
2 tablespoons of brown sugar
30 grams of flaked almonds (optional)
icing sugar, for dusting
double cream, to serve
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Pour the milk, cream and vanilla into a pan and boil for a minute.
Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
Tip the eggs and sugar into a bowl and beat together until light and fluffy.
Fold the flour into the mixture, a little at a time.
Pour the cooled milk and cream onto the egg and sugar mixture, whisking lightly. Set aside.
Place a little butter into an ovenproof dish and heat in the oven until foaming.
Add the plums and brown sugar and bake for 5 minutes, then pour the batter into the dish and scatter with flaked almonds, if using.
Cook in the oven for about 30 minutes, until golden-brown and set but still light and soft inside.
Dust with icing sugar and serve immediately with cream.
Enjoy!
This recipe is too delicious and too easy not to try!
PLUM CLAFOUTIS serves 4-6
Ingredients
125ml of milk
125ml of double cream
2-3 drops of vanilla essence
4 free-range eggs
170 grams of caster sugar
1 tablespoon of plain flour
30 grams of butter
500 grams of plums, cut in half, stones removed
2 tablespoons of brown sugar
30 grams of flaked almonds (optional)
icing sugar, for dusting
double cream, to serve
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Pour the milk, cream and vanilla into a pan and boil for a minute.
Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
Tip the eggs and sugar into a bowl and beat together until light and fluffy.
Fold the flour into the mixture, a little at a time.
Pour the cooled milk and cream onto the egg and sugar mixture, whisking lightly. Set aside.
Place a little butter into an ovenproof dish and heat in the oven until foaming.
Add the plums and brown sugar and bake for 5 minutes, then pour the batter into the dish and scatter with flaked almonds, if using.
Cook in the oven for about 30 minutes, until golden-brown and set but still light and soft inside.
Dust with icing sugar and serve immediately with cream.
Enjoy!
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