British Bread Pudding Recipes

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.

OLD-FASHIONED BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In 2-quart saucepan, heat milk and butter over medium heat until butter is melted and milk is hot.
• In large bowl, mix eggs, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Stir in bread cubes and raisins. Stir in milk mixture. Pour into ungreased deep round pan.
• Bake uncovered 40 to 45 minutes or until knife inserted 1 inch from edge comes out clean. Serve warm with whipping cream.

BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Tear 500g white or wholemeal bread into a large mixing bowl and add 500g mixed dried fruit, 85g mixed peel and 1 ½ tbsp mixed spice.
• Pour in 600ml milk, then stir or scrunch through your fingers to mix everything well and completely break up the bread.
• Add 2 beaten large eggs, 140g light muscovado sugar and zest of 1 lemon, if using. Stir well, then set aside for 15 mins to soak.
• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and line the base of a 20cm non-stick square cake tin (not one with a loose base).
• Stir the melted butter into the pudding mixture, tip into the tin, then scatter with demerara.
• Bake for 1½ hrs until firm and golden, covering with foil if it starts to brown too much. Turn out of the tin and strip off the paper. Cut into squares and serve warm.

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.

BRITISH BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees for a metal pan or 350 degrees for a glass pan.
• In a large bowl combine bread and milk and soak for 5 minutes.
• Stir in egg, butter, fruit/raisins, brown sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon.
• Mix well.
• Press into a 9 inch greased square pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
• Leave in pan to cool.
• Cut in squares.

ENGLISH BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Soak bread in water for 1/2 hour then squeeze out water and drain.
• Put in a bowl with all other ingredients, mix and put in greased tin and bake until cooked - about 45 minutes on 350 F.