Bread and Butter Pudding

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⏱ 40 mins 🍽 4 serving(s) 🏷 Dessert

This cherished recipe yields a comforting dessert that perfectly blends the textures of a traditional pudding with a smooth, baked custard. It uses simple ingredients like bread, milk, eggs and raisins, all brought together with vanilla and cinnamon. The result is a wonderfully versatile treat that can be enjoyed hot, warm or cold. It serves four people and takes about 40 minutes to prepare and bake.

Bread and Butter Pudding

Ingredients

  • 5 slices bread
  • butter, to apply to the bread
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1 cup hot water
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Method

  1. Heat your oven to 180°C.
  2. Place the raisins in a bowl and cover them with the hot water to soak.
  3. Spread butter on each slice of bread, then cut every slice diagonally.
  4. Lay the buttered bread triangles in a lightly greased or non-stick baking dish.
  5. Take a bowl and lightly beat the eggs inside it.
  6. In a separate pan, combine the milk and sugar and heat until it just begins to boil.
  7. Remove the pan from the heat as soon as it boils and stir in the vanilla essence.
  8. Gradually pour the hot milk mixture into the bowl with the beaten eggs.
  9. Keep stirring the mixture constantly until the egg is fully blended in and the custard starts to thicken.
  10. Scatter the soaked raisins over and between the arranged bread slices.
  11. Gently pour the prepared custard over the bread, then place the dish into the preheated oven.
  12. Bake the pudding for 25 mins or until a tester inserted comes out clean.
  13. Dust the baked pudding with cinnamon powder while it is still hot.
  14. This pudding is delicious served hot, warm or even cold.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium310900 mg

Recipe details

CategoryDessert
AuthorGirl from India