Latvian recipe
How to make Layered rye bread dessert
rupjmaizes kārtojums
All of Latvia
A dessert like a trifle, made in a glass bowl from layers of toasted rye bread crumbs with cinnamon and sugar, berry jam and whipped cream.
Ingredients
- 200 g dark rye bread (without seeds), dried or a day old
- 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 20 g butter
- 300 ml whipping cream with 1 tablespoon sugar and a little vanilla
- 6 tablespoons blackcurrant or lingonberry jam
- Fresh berries and a little grated dark chocolate to decorate
Method
- Grate the rye bread into fine crumbs. Melt the butter in a pan, add the crumbs, sugar and cinnamon and toast them for 5 minutes, stirring, until crisp. Leave to cool.
- Whip the cream with the sugar and vanilla until it holds soft peaks.
- In 4 glasses or one glass bowl, make layers: a spoonful of jam, then whipped cream, then rye crumbs. Repeat until the glasses are full, ending with cream and a sprinkle of crumbs.
- Chill for at least 2 hours so that the crumbs soften and the flavours come together.
- Decorate with fresh berries and grated chocolate just before serving.
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