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Brioche French Toast with Macerated Summer Berries
Created by Chef Ally
Thick slices of buttery brioche soaked in vanilla custard and cooked to a golden crust, crowned with summer berries that have surrendered their juices into a natural syrup no bottle could match.
Start with the brioche. A good loaf, baked by someone who used real butter and eggs, is already halfway to something extraordinary. Day-old is what you want. The slight staleness lets the bread drink up the custard without falling apart, and the texture after cooking is incomparably better: crisp and caramelized outside, custardy within.
The berries matter just as much. Find them at peak season, from a farmer who picked them that morning or the day before. Strawberries that smell like strawberries. Raspberries that stain your fingers. Blueberries tight with juice. When fruit is this good, sugar and a squeeze of lemon are all you need. The berries do the rest, releasing their own syrup as they sit.
This is not a complicated dish. It is breakfast the way it should be: good ingredients, simple technique, and the patience to let things become what they want to become. The thirty minutes the berries spend macerating while you cook the toast is not waiting. It is transformation.
Ingredients
brioche loaf
Quantity
1 (about 1 pound)
day-old, cut into 8 thick slices
large eggs
Quantity
4
at room temperature
heavy cream
Quantity
1 cup
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| brioche loafday-old, cut into 8 thick slices | 1 (about 1 pound) |
| large eggsat room temperature | 4 |
| heavy cream | 1 cup |
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