Far breton is a classic French dessert originating from Brittany. It is called farz forn in the local language which means wheat in the oven. It used to be a very simple and affordable dessert made of roughly ground wheat and milk. Later, raisins or prunes were added. Nowadays, it is common to enhance this wonderful dish with rum.
You can see the sweet prunes and the tasty vanilla seeds on this slice of far.
It is not too remote from a clafoutis but instead of the cherries, you are using prunes.
My recipe is using a thermo-machine: Magimix Cook Expert, but you can use any thermo-appliance such as Thermomix, or Tefal Cuisine companion, or KitchenAid Cook processor or any machine I studied HERE.
You can of course make it without any machine. It is very simple.
- 4 eggs
- 130g raw sugar or caster sugar
- 1 tbs vanilla bean paste
- 750ml milk
- 20g melted butter
- 125g flour
- 1 cap of dark rum
- 20 large prunes
- Preaheat oven at 200°C
- THERMO-MACHINE recipe: add all ingredients in the bowl starting with milk and EXCEPT prunes. Launch the DOUGH program (2 mins / Speed 4 / no temperature). **Butter oven dish. Place prunes all over. Pour batter. Bake for 40 mins (if it gets too dark lower temperature to 180°C)
- CLASSIC recipe: Tip all ingredients in a bowl and whisk. Then continue from **
Hi Flo, Thanks for the recipe, we loved it. I wonder whether eggs are missing from your recipe? After a time in the oven and the mix not setting, I checked some other recipes and noted the eggs. I stirred them in and all was good. With best wishes, Daniel
Hi Daniel!!
Oh my Gosh! Lucky you’re here…. I am truly and sooo sorry for this. There is nothing worse than a typo in a recipe. And especially with a key ingredient such as eggs…
I’m so glad you were able to save the dish and add the eggs before it was too late.
Again I’m sorry about this mistake!
Flo
Hi Flo, No worries – really helped me understand important role of eggs in a dish like this!
Thank you for being so kind Daniel :) Eggs are a great cement for cooking, that’s for sure :)
Hello,
I have just purchased a magimix cook expert and this recipe has caught my eye. How many eggs would it need? Thanks.
Regards
Diana
Ps. Love your blog!
Gosh I’m so sorry Diana! I can’t believe I forgot the eggs in the list!
How kind are you :) You’re asking so nicely.
Thank you!!
x
Thank you. Weekend coming up….I can’t wait to give it a go! xx