Bread cake (zero-waste)
Zero-waste recipe from the Atienza book: stale bread turned into a sweet cake with milk, egg, sugar and cinnamon.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 45 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- Easy
What you need
- 300 g day-old stale bread
- 750 ml whole milk
- 4 eggs
- 150 g sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 100 g raisins (optional)
- Liquid caramel (for the mould)
Step by step
- 01
Cut the bread into small pieces and put in a large bowl.
- 02
Heat the milk with lemon zest without boiling. Pour over the bread and let it soak at least 20 minutes. Mash with a fork to a homogeneous paste.
- 03
Beat the eggs with sugar and cinnamon. Add to the bread mixture along with raisins if using.
- 04
Preheat oven to 180 °C. Cover the bottom of a rectangular mould with liquid caramel.
- 05
Pour the mixture into the mould and smooth.
- 06
Bake at 180 °C for about 45 minutes in a water bath. Done when a skewer comes out clean.
- 07
Cool completely before unmoulding (at least 4 hours in the fridge). Serve cold.
- The better the bread (hogaza, not sliced), the better the texture.
- Variant: add chunks of apple or pear with the raisins.
Other traditional recipes
- MeatsGallina en pepitoriaPepitoria is one of the oldest Castilian stews and an emblematic dish of Atienza cuisine: chicken, almonds, saffron, hard-boiled egg and white wine.
- MeatsWood-fired roast lambThe star dish of Atienza mountain cuisine: milk-fed lamb roasted whole, with lard, garlic and white wine. Traditional recipe for the home oven.
- SweetsTraditional Easter torrijasThe undisputed sweet of Atienza Easter: bread slices soaked in milk infused with cinnamon and lemon, coated in egg and fried in hot oil.
Taste it in Atienza
The village restaurants serve the traditional recipe book all year round.