Categories: Fruit Desserts

Ingredients

• About 8 slices bread
• About 6 cups any fresh, frozen or canned fruit (drain, if using canned)
• About 3/4 cup butter, plus more for greasing
• About 1 1/2 cups brown or white sugar, divided
• Ground cinnamon, to taste

Directions

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Cut bread slices into thin strips. Rotate bread slices 90 degrees and dice into cubes. Keep cutting ; or tearing, if you prefer, until bread is your desired size.

3. If using fresh fruit, pit and core them. Slice, cut off and discard any brown, or mushy parts, and coarsely dice fruit into about 1/2 inch cubes. You can peel the apples if you prefer.

4. Rub a baking dish lavishly with butter.

5. Sprinkle brown sugar or white sugar and cinnamon, in the bottom of the dish, using about 1/2 cup.

6. Put 1/3 of the fruit over it, then about 1/3 of the bread crumbles less if necessary to have enough for a nice layer at the end. Repeat; sugar and cinnamon, fruit, bread, sugar and cinnamon, fruit, bread .

7. Slice some salted butter (about 1 1/2 sticks) and lay the slices all over the top. Sprinkle 3 to 4 Tbsp. water across the top.

8. Cover with foil and bake for about 45 minutes. When you have about 5 minutes remaining, remove the foil. Keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t get too brown. Remove from the oven when it’s hot and bubbly.

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