Máglyarakás/Bonfire stack: a practical and delicious choice for recycling leftover bread

Máglyarakás (bonfire stack) is a simple, but delicious and filling dessert. Since stale bread, crescents or sweet bread constitute the base of this bread pudding, it allows us to reduce food waste.

Traditionally, the bread or crescent pieces are soaked in milk to make them soft, and then they are enriched with apple and jam, but you can choose any kind of fruit to make a tasty bonfire stack, origo wrote.

Ingredients:
6-8 pcs crescent (or an equal amount of bread or sweet bread)
3-4 apples
4 eggs
700 ml milk
170 g sugar
120 g chopped walnuts
5 tablespoon jam of your choice
1 tablespoon cinnamon
55 g butter
1 tablespoon of bourbon vanilla

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Method:

First, cut up the crescent rolls or the bread and soak the chunks in milk. Split the vanilla bean and scrape out the seeds. Separate the eggs and whisk the egg yolks, sugar, vanilla and lemon zest together. Pour it over the pastry and stir to combine. Peel and thinly slice the apples. Melt the butter in a frying pan, add the apple slices, sprinkle with sugar, walnuts and ground cinnamon, and cook until the apple is almost tender. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease an ovenproof dish and dust with breadcrumbs. Spread half of the soaked pastry pieces in the prepared dish, then put a layer of apples on the top of the bread. Lay the rest of the pastry over the apple slices and spread the jam over them evenly. Put it in the preheated oven for 20−25 minutes. During the last 10 minutes, beat the egg whites with 1 tablespoon of sugar until it becomes stiff. Remove the dish from the oven and spread the top with the whipped egg whites. Put the dish back in the oven and bake until it becomes light golden brown. Let it cool before slicing and serving. Enjoy!

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Source: origo.hu