Charlotte

What is charlotte and how to cook? At first glance, everything is very simple - fruit filling and dough on top. No izlishevstv - all just obscene. The first time I baked apple pie as twelve years ago. For me as a child was not delicious pies than aromtany 'wet' grandmother's apple pie.

In fact, this dish appeared in France under the name of Charlotte. The dish is a sweet cream with fruit, white bread and liquor. Prepared it long and hard. Anyway, at home to prepare this dish is not easy. Where did this name is now difficult to say. There are several versions. According to one version of the name comes from the Old English word spoiled French charlyt, which means 'a dish with sweet cream'. Probably because it is based on a cream like the one used in the creme brulee, only with fruit dobavkami.Drugaya version - romantic. The story of the love of a chef to some poor Charlotte, and cook named in her honor this dish. But the most likely is that this dish is named in honor of Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, which was a great lover yablok.Pozzhe, around the beginning of the XIX century there was a dish called Charlotte Russe. It was invented by a French chef, sostyavshaya in the service of Alexander I, and her name was Maria Antuannetta Karem.
Charlotte is not difficult to prepare. It's just baked bread with cream of eggs, milk and sugar. Thrifty housewives make Charlotte of stale bread. Dry bread soaked in egg mixture, and the taste of this dessert is much better than the dessert of fresh bread. Our charlotte with butter - a traditional home-cooked meals, but we came up with a few recipes from different kinds of bread and other ingredients. Often in Charlotte add light and dark raisins, and more recently modern Charlotte began to resemble a work of art, and in no way inferior to traditional cakes