Traditional British Bread And Butter Pudding Food

TRADITIONAL BRITISH BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING

Steps:

• Cut the buttered bread slices into quarters and arrange half in an ovenproof dish.
• Scatter over half the sultanas and 2 tbsp sugar.
• Repeat with the second layer of bread and scatter over remaining sultanas and 2 tbsp sugar.
• Make the custard by beating the eggs with the 2 oz sugar and milk.
• Pour over the bread.
• Leave to stand for approx an hour.
• Cook at 150 C for approx an hour until the custard is set, make sure the oven isn't too hot as the custard will curdle.

BRITISH BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, combine bread and milk, and set aside to soak for 5 minutes. Then stir in egg, butter, raisins, mixed fruit, brown sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Mix well. Press the mixture into a 9-inch square baking pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until golden and firm to touch, about 35 minutes. Leave in baking pan to cool, then cut into squares.

BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C/gas 4. To make the custard, heat the milk, cream and vanilla pod with its scraped out seeds (if using) together in a saucepan to just below boiling point. Meanwhile whisk the eggs and yolk with the caster sugar in a jug. Slowly pour the warm milk mixture, including the vanilla pod, over the eggs, stirring constantly until smooth. Stir in the vanilla extract now if using.
• Lightly butter an ovenproof dish approximately 20cm x 25cm x 5cm. Cut the crusts from the bread slices, then butter both sides of the bread and cut into triangles. Lay half of the bread slices in the bottom of the dish so that they are slightly overlapping. Mix the dried fruit with the lemon zest and sprinkle half of the mix over the bread. Layer the rest of the bread on top then sprinkle over the remaining fruit.
• Remove the vanilla pod from the custard then pour the custard over the pudding. Leave to soak for at least 30 mins, or longer in the fridge, if you like. Sprinkle over the demerara and bake for 35-40 mins until golden brown and puffed up.

BRITISH BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING

Steps:

• Butter the slices all over, both sides and line the dish.
• Sprinkle over the dried fruit or other fruits (fig and banana -- ).
• Sprinkle approximately 2TB brown sugar over that and add a cover of more buttered bread, covering all the fruit.
• Pierce the bread a few times and then slowly pour over the milk, letting it all soak into the bread before adding more. When the bread is really sopping with milk sprinkle about 1TB more brown sugar over the top and then a little cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg.
• Bake in a low oven, approx 140C, 275F, for a couple of hours until it rises up and the sugar caramelizes on top.
• Serve hot with ice cream or cold with custard.