Cottage Cheese Pudding

OFENSCHLUPFER MIT QUARK A dessert from a German grandmother.

• Ready In: 1 hr 15 mins
• Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 1  cup cottage cheese
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 3  tablespoons sour cream
• 1⁄3 cup  superfine sugar
• 1⁄3 cup white raisins, seedless
• 4  soft bread  rolls
• 2  cups apples, thinly sliced
• 2  eggs
• 2⁄3-1  cup milk
• 1 -2  teaspoon lemon peel, grated
• 2  tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces

Directions

1. Soak raisins in warm water for 15 minutes and drain.
2. Remove the crusts from rolls and slice thinly.
3. Mix the cheese with a pinch of salt, the sour cream and 2 Tablespoons of the sugar, then mix in the raisins.
4. Line the bottom of a buttered oven dish with the bread slices, then cover with the cheese mixture.
5. A layer of thinly sliced apples may be added at this stage.
6. Cover with the remaining slices of bread. Whisk the eggs with the milk, the grated lemon peel and half of the remaining sugar, and pour the mixture over the pudding.
7. Sprinkle with the remaining sugar, dot with the butter pieces and bake in a preheated 350°F oven for about 45 minutes or until brown and the custard has set.