Homemade Colonial Bread Pudding Mount Vernon Inn Recipes

SIMPLE BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a small saucepan over low heat, warm milk, butter, vanilla, sugar and salt. Continue cooking just until butter melts; cool. Meanwhile, butter a 4-to-6-cup baking dish and fill it with cubed bread.
• Add eggs to cooled milk mixture and whisk; pour mixture over bread. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until custard is set but still a little wobbly and edges of bread have browned. Serve warm or at room temperature.

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.

BAKED BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter a 1 1/2- to 2-quart baking dish. 2. In a saucepan, combine the half-and-half with the cinnamon sticks and lemon zest. Scald (bring just below the boil) over medium heat, whisking constantly. Do not let the milk boil. Remove from the heat, stir in the butter, and set aside to cool to room temperature. Stir occasionally. 3. Combine the breadcrumbs with the currants in a large bowl. Add the sugar, salt, nutmeg, and ginger and combine well. 4. When the milk has cooled, strain and discard the cinnamon sticks. Whisk in the eggs. Pour into the breadcrumb mixture, and combine thoroughly. 5. Pour into the prepared baking dish and bake for 45 to 60 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Set aside to cool to room temperature before serving. 6. Serve slices of the bread pudding with Boiled Custard or Fairy Butter, if desired.

HOMEMADE COLONIAL BREAD PUDDING MOUNT VERNON INN

Steps:

• 1. In a bowl, let the bread crumbs soak in the half-and-half for 6 minutes, stir in the sugar, the butter, the salt, the nutmeg, the cinnamon, the eggs, the vanilla, and the raisins, and pour into a buttered 13 by 9 inch baking dish. 2. Put the dish in a larger baking pan, pour enough hot water into the pan to reach halfway up the sides of the dish, and bake the pudding in the middle of a preheated 350F oven for 1 hour, or until it is golden.