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Traditional Bread and Butter Pudding
Recipe by:
naturekate
This is a classic bread and butter pudding recipe.
Ready in 50 mins
Saved by 179 cook(s)
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 8 slices white bread
- 50g (2 oz) lightly salted butter
- 50g (2 oz) currants or sultanas
- 300ml (1/2 pint) milk
- 120ml (4 fl oz) whipping cream
- 50g (2 oz) caster sugar
- zest of 1/2 a lemon
- 3 eggs
- freshly grated nutmeg (optional)
- 50g (2 oz) candied lemon or orange peel (optional)
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Preparation method
Prep: 20 mins | Cook: 30 mins1.
Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4, and butter a 2 liter baking dish.
2.
Leave bread out to become slightly dry, then butter both sides of bread. Arrange one layer of buttered bread on the bottom of the baking dish. Sprinkle with half of the currants (and all of the candied lemon or orange peel if using). Cover with the remainder of bread and currants.
3.
Combine milk, cream, sugar and zest. Add milk mixture to eggs while beating vigorously. Pour milk and egg mixture over bread. Top with a sprinkle of freshly grated nutmeg.
4.
Bake on centre rack in preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, until crust is a deep golden brown. Serve warm with custard or cream.
Tip:
You can try spreading marmalade over the buttered bread slices for a tasty variation of this recipe.
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Last updated:
14 Mar 2013
Reviews & comments
Easy
This is very similar to my recipe, except I use jam in mine! http://recipesatrandom.com/2012/02/04/jam-sandwich-pudding-bread-and-butter-pudding-with-jam/
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04 Feb 2012
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:`not for me - wasn't good
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24 Aug 2011
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Love this dish!
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10 Feb 2011
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Altered ingredient amounts.
I had no cream so just used milk.. I also didn't have any lemons or peel, so I added cinnamon and nutmeg instead.
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16 Oct 2010
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Not a great recipe. A bit bland and the centre was too liquid.
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15 Apr 2010
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Delicious! Can't wait to make it again.
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28 Mar 2010
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Made it healthier.
I used single cream instead of whipping cream and found that the pudding was still deliciously rich and moist
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15 Mar 2010
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I adored this classic recipe. I used only currants (no peel) and single cream instead - it was still delicious and perfectly rich. This is now my go-to bread pudding recipe! Thank you kindly
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15 Mar 2010
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6 user(s) found this review helpful
it looks delicious
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24 Nov 2008
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