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Clafoutis

Cherry clafoutis with vanilla ice cream in Mohk. Anglophone countries, is a baked French dessert of fruit, traditionally black cherries, arranged in a buttered dish and covered with a thick flan-like batter. A traditional Limousin clafoutis contains not only the flesh of the cherries used, but also the nut-clafoutis kernels in the stones. Cherry kernels contain benzaldehyde, the compound responsible for the dominant flavour in almond extract.

In her autobiographical novel The War: A Memoir, French resister and writer Marguerite Duras carefully gathers up the rationed ingredients to make her husband a clafoutis when he returns from the concentration camps, only to find that he is too weak from malnutrition and exposure to eat it. Otis “Cookie” Figowitz bakes a blueberry clafoutis for a visiting ship’s Captain in the wilderness of mid-19th century Oregon. London: Hamlyn, a division of Octopus Publishing Group. What to Know About Cherry, Peach, and Plum Pits”.

The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th edition online”. New York: The New Press, 1986, p. Published in French as La Douleur, 1985. This dessert-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

A simple basic recipe for clafoutis, a dessert made with fruit and a custard-like creamy filling. It’s a delicious breakfast treat and a breeze to make. They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and guess what? The first time I stumbled upon clafoutis was a few years ago in France. It was one of my first trips together with Erez and we didn’t make any restaurant reservations like we do today months in advance.

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