Pain Perdu
Serves: 4
Prep time: 10 mins + soaking
Cook time: 30 mins
Ingredients
3 eggs
1 cup (250ml) milk
1 cup (250ml) cream
1 vanilla bean, halved, seeds scraped
¼ cup (55g) caster sugar + 2 tbsp extra
1 tsp ground cinnamon
fresh nutmeg, grated
sea salt, to season
1 french bread stick, day old
50g butter
maple syrup, icing sugar, fresh berries to serve
Method
Whisk the eggs, milk, cream, vanilla seeds, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl until well combined and sugar dissolves. Season with sea salt.
Pour custard into a shallow tray.
Slice baguette into 4 portions, then halve horizontally.
Place bread slices in batter, turning to completely coat, and allow to soak for 5-10 minutes, until bread has fully soaked up the liquid.
Preheat the oven to 180°C fan force (355°F).
Heat half the butter in a large oven-proof frying pan over medium-high heat.
Cook half the soaked bread, cut side down for 2 minutes, until golden brown.
Turn bread over, then sprinkle half of the extra sugar over the top.
Transfer pan to oven and bake for 10-12 minutes, until caramelised and puffed. Repeat with remaining bread and butter.
Serve pain perdu drizzled in syrup, with some berries and dusted with icing sugar.
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37 Comments
We just call it French toast.
Damn Chef… that looks mighty delicious. I'm not even a big sweets for breakfast guy.
THAAAT'S what it is. Cutting the bread oddly reminded me of something I just couldn't figure out.
The Minecraft eating SFX.
"A good french chef is just somebody who is willing to use more butter than you."
I’m curious why does he heat up the plate at the end?
Andy did you gas the bread with straight butane before you served it ? What exactly was the blow torch for ?
Why baguette and not brioche?
Looks burnt
Most of the french people commenting here have their heads up their derrierrs. Its literally a recipe to make rock hard bread edible again. Why soak it in cream and eggs otherwise?
And do Kerala style bdf beef dry fry
Why do u dress like a rapper from 2004?
French toast on french bread
Yeah, nah. I've been doing French Toast since the 70s. That's not the deal. French Toast is really about making your stale bread into something delicious. Lots of ways to go, but simpler is better.
Go the stainless pan .. only way!
Your recipe is extremely fancy.
The root of the Pain Perdu is to use stale bread,it was a poor man's meal. Also otherwise you can't soak it long enough with it disintegrating.
I'd still eat yours and I'm sure it is delicious, but still not quite pain perdu.
Looks over the top, but also looks like it wouldn't be that great. Sometimes simple is just better.
Can you do more videos were you ask the lady what she wants to eat? And I haven't seen them lately.
For anyone who doesn’t know, pain perdu literally means "lost bread". This dish is meant to be made with stale bread that’s hardened so much the only way to eat it is to soften it by soaking it in milk. If you ever find yourself with unedible bread at home, don’t throw it away, instead make this !
"the most over the top french toast" hi, french guy here, i like you andy, but YOU make it "over the top" with honey, fruits etc..
most of the time it's just bread, sugar, egg, milk, butter in the pan and that's it. no fancy things usually, it's a poor man recipe to recycle old hard bread
Fanciest French toast at home…….we people we got no time for that…
Guys…slice the Baguette in circles…add vanilla sugar to the egg n milk mix, easier and cheaper than whole vanilla pods. His bread is too thick, it cooks faster in lots of rounds in pan. I make it for breakfast in France most Sundays. Just sprinkle with sugar. ❤❤❤
That is no way a une French baquette
Pain? I want the Shinra Tensei and Chibaku tensei next please)
I usually do without the perdu.
Pain is enough🫠
I’ve never seen French toast with French bread I don’t know why I didn’t think you could do it with bread that’s not square and flat
Please do a BAIÃO de Dois. I believe you can use pigeon pea in Australia! It's such an amazing Brazilian dish!
0:43 what happened, few arm hairs to tidy off? 😆
Andy cooked his butter in bread this morning 💀
I always have red dakka bananas because my dad grows them, just frying one of these bananas until caramelised and adding it to my french toast or pancakes is absolutely amazing 🤤
I appreciate finishing the french toast in the oven, I find that trying to cook thick french toast soley in the pain means I need to baby it like a hawk.
Two Andys? Babe doesn't stand a chance.
So Andy You've Basically Made Fruity French-Toast.!
Just Make Some Pancakes, In 10Min, Vs, Half An Hour, To Maake This.
Looks Nice Though.
T.T my favorite! My momma used to make this with old French Bread. I miss her so much. I'm part Cajun French from her. The only difference is that she would just put the powdered sugar instead of syrup and powdered sugar.
This recipe was invented to avoid throwing away stale bread (very important and expensive at the time) by making it edible again by soaking it in milk and eggs. So, doing this with fresh bread makes no sense…
Tf is lost bread
Cutting the bread sounded exactly like the Minecraft eating sound effect
2 Andys? Wot? Am I high asf? I'll never know.