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French Pain Perdu (Classic French Toast — The Original Lost Bread) with brioche, eggs and heavy cream — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

French Pain Perdu (Classic French Toast — The Original Lost Bread)

Pain perdu — literally 'lost bread' in French — is the classic French dish that turns stale bread into a custardy, golden treat: thick slices of day-old brioche or country bread soaked in a rich custard of eggs, milk, cream, sugar, and vanilla, then pan-fried in butter to a crisp caramelized exterior with a soft, just-set custard centre. This is the French original behind what Americans know as French toast. A Roman cookbook known as Apicius already has a sweet of white bread soaked in milk, fried and covered with honey, and the medieval French cookbook Le Viandier lists 'tostées dorées'; the name pain perdu comes from using up bread that would otherwise be lost. In France pain perdu is eaten mostly as a dessert or an afternoon goûter, though it turns up at breakfast too. Classic toppings are powdered sugar, fresh berries, sautéed apples with Calvados, or crème anglaise. Cinnamon and maple syrup are more of an American habit; this version uses orange zest and vanilla. Active 20 minutes. Serves 4 (two slices each).

20 min540 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Pastila (Russian Apple Pastila) with apples, egg white and powdered sugar — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Pastila (Russian Apple Pastila)

Pastila is an old Russian confection of baked apple purée whipped with egg white and sugar until pale and airy, then slowly dried into tender, marshmallow-like layers. The Belyov version from Tula stacks several dried sheets glued with more purée into a soft loaf. Tart antonovka apples, rich in pectin, are traditional; the result is naturally light and fruit-forward. Plan on two days: about 8 hours of baking and slow drying, plus an hour of draining the purée and a 12-hour rest before slicing.

480 min160 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

Zefir (Russian Apple Marshmallow) with apples, agar and egg white — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Sweet Dishes

Zefir (Russian Apple Marshmallow)

Zefir is a light Russian confection — thick apple purée whipped with egg white and set with an agar-sugar syrup into airy, meringue-like rosettes. A descendant of pastila, it sets at room temperature rather than in the fridge, giving a delicate crust outside and a soft, springy centre. Naturally fat-free and gluten-free, it's dusted with powdered sugar and served in sandwiched pairs. The 60 minutes cover the hands-on work only: the purée has to cool completely first, and the piped zefir then dries at room temperature for 6–12 hours — overnight is easiest.

60 min220 kcal12 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

Chicken Pastilla (Moroccan Sweet-Savory Pie) with chicken thighs, phyllo and almonds — Morocco recipe

🇲🇦MoroccoAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Chicken Pastilla (Moroccan Sweet-Savory Pie)

Pastilla is Morocco's most extravagant pie — a crisp, golden pastry of paper-thin warqa (or phyllo) concealing three layers: saffron-spiced shredded chicken, a soft egg-and-onion custard set in the reduced cooking juices, and a sweet crunch of fried almonds scented with orange blossom. Dusted with powdered sugar and cinnamon, it plays sweet against savoury in a way few dishes dare. Born of Arab-Andalusian heritage, it's a celebration centrepiece served at weddings and feasts.

100 min610 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Strawberry Shortcake with Buttermilk Biscuits with strawberries, all purpose flour and buttermilk — USA recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Strawberry Shortcake with Buttermilk Biscuits

American strawberry shortcake is built on warm, craggy buttermilk biscuits rather than sponge cake. The biscuits split cleanly around juicy macerated berries and softly whipped cream, so every serving has crisp edges, tender crumbs, and plenty of strawberry syrup.

75 min465 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Sharlotka — Russian Apple Sponge Cake with eggs, plain flour and apples — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Sweet Dishes

Sharlotka — Russian Apple Sponge Cake

The Russian home cake that appears the moment apples come into season: a whisked sponge poured over sliced apples and baked until golden. There is no butter and no mixer required beyond a whisk, and the lift comes entirely from eggs beaten with sugar. Tart apples keep it from turning cloying. Let it cool in the tin before you dust it with powdered sugar and slice it.

55 min245 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Vanillekipferl (German Vanilla Crescent Cookies) with flour, butter and almonds — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Vanillekipferl (German Vanilla Crescent Cookies)

Vanillekipferl are small crescent-shaped shortbread cookies made with ground almonds and rolled in vanilla sugar while still warm. They were first baked in Vienna, and today no Advent cookie tin in Germany or Austria is complete without them. The dough has no baking powder and only two egg yolks, so the crumb is sandy and melts on the tongue instead of crunching. The 75 minutes cover mixing, shaping and baking three trays; the dough also needs an hour in the fridge before shaping, and the cookies are at their best after two or three days in a tin. Makes about 70 pieces, six to a serving.

75 min320 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Zimtsterne (German Cinnamon Star Cookies) with almonds, egg whites and cinnamon — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Zimtsterne (German Cinnamon Star Cookies)

Zimtsterne are star-shaped German Christmas cookies made without any flour: the dough is ground almonds, cinnamon and a meringue of egg whites and powdered sugar, and part of that same meringue becomes the white glaze on top. They come from Swabia in southern Germany and are chewy and soft inside, closer to marzipan than to a biscuit. They bake at a low 140°C so the glaze stays snow white. The 90 minutes cover whipping, cutting, glazing and two trays in the oven; the sticky dough also rests 45 minutes in the fridge before rolling. Makes about 40 stars, four to a serving, and they are naturally gluten-free.

90 min350 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Spritzgebäck (German Piped Butter Cookies) with butter, flour and egg — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Spritzgebäck (German Piped Butter Cookies)

Spritzgebäck (spritz cookies in English, also called Butter-Spritzgebäck) is a German butter cookie: a soft dough of butter, powdered sugar, egg, flour and vanilla that is piped through a star nozzle into rings, S-shapes or rosettes instead of being rolled and cut. Cream the butter, mix in the flour, pipe, chill the trays 30 minutes, bake at 180°C for 12 to 14 minutes and dip half of each cookie in dark chocolate; the batch makes about 40 cookies, 5 per serving. The dough has to be soft enough to leave the nozzle but firm enough to keep its ridges, and most of the method below is about getting that balance. The time counts hands-on work and the oven; the 30-minute chill and the hour the chocolate needs to set come on top.

70 min490 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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