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Bread & Butter Pudding

Name: Bread & Butter Pudding
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 8–10 slices day-old white bread, buttered; 75g sultanas; Custard: 500ml whole milk, 100ml double cream, 3 eggs, 75g caster sugar, 1 tsp vanilla; Grated nutmeg; 2 tbsp demerara sugar; Extra custard or cream, to serve

Buttered bread layered with sultanas and baked in nutmeg custard until the top crisps — thrift turned into one of the most comforting puddings in the canon.

Prep: 20 min
Cook: 40 min
Total: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Difficulty: Easy
Era: Georgian thrift

Ingredients

8–10 slices day-old white bread, buttered
75g sultanas
Custard: 500ml whole milk, 100ml double cream, 3 eggs, 75g caster sugar, 1 tsp vanilla
Grated nutmeg; 2 tbsp demerara sugar
Extra custard or cream, to serve

Method

Oven180°C350°FFan 160°CGas 4

Cut the buttered bread into triangles and layer in a buttered baking dish, scattering sultanas between the layers.
Whisk the custard ingredients and pour over; press the bread down gently and rest 30 minutes to soak.
Grate over nutmeg and scatter with demerara.
Bake at 180°C / 350°F (fan 160°C, gas 4) for 35–40 minutes until puffed, golden and just set.
Rest 10 minutes, then serve with yet more custard. This is not the time for restraint.

Oven temperatures are given in Celsius, Fahrenheit, fan and gas mark throughout. Quantities are metric, as cooked and written in the UK.