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Old-Fashioned Bread Pudding
Ingredients
| 500 g | stale bread, white, wholemeal or a mixture. Stale plain or fruit buns can also be used |
| 1 medium | lemon, zest and juice, keep separate |
| 1 medium | cooking apple, or 2 dessert apples, peeled, cored and grated and tossed in the juice of the lemon |
| 75 g | margarine or butter, melted |
| 2 large | eggs, beaten |
| 100 g | brown sugar |
| 2 tsp | mixed spice |
| 1 tsp | ground cinnamon |
| 1 tsp | ground nutmeg |
| 500 g | mixed dried fruit, raisins, sultanas, and currants |
| milk, if the mixture appears dry | |
| 50 g | mixed peel, chopped OPTIONAL |
| sugar, as topping | |
| mixed spice, as topping |
Method
Preparation time: ca. 1 hr / Grade of difficulty: medium / Calories per portion: n/a
Preheat oven to Gas Mark 4, 180°C, 350°F. Thoroughly grease a large baking dish.
All measurements are approximate and may be varied should you wish. If the bread has hard crusts, remove them. Break or cut the bread into pieces and soak the bread in water for at least 30 minutes. If any of the bread is then dry, add a little more water and soak for a few more minutes.
Squeeze out excess water and place bread in a large bowl. Add the melted butter, eggs and lemon zest and mix well together. Add sugar and spices and mix again. Add dried fruit and apple and mix well. Add a little milk if the mixture appears dry.
Transfer to baking dish and sprinkle extra sugar and mixed spice over the top. Bake for at least one hour or until the top is crusted and browned.
Cut into squares and serve warm or hot with fresh custard or allow to cool and cut into squares as a snack with tea or coffee.
About the recipe:
My mother used to make this regularly; it was never exactly the same twice in succession but always turned out well and was always eaten.
All measurements are approximate and may be varied should you wish. If the bread has hard crusts, remove them. Break or cut the bread into pieces and soak the bread in water for at least 30 minutes. If any of the bread is then dry, add a little more water and soak for a few more minutes.
Squeeze out excess water and place bread in a large bowl. Add the melted butter, eggs and lemon zest and mix well together. Add sugar and spices and mix again. Add dried fruit and apple and mix well. Add a little milk if the mixture appears dry.
Transfer to baking dish and sprinkle extra sugar and mixed spice over the top. Bake for at least one hour or until the top is crusted and browned.
Cut into squares and serve warm or hot with fresh custard or allow to cool and cut into squares as a snack with tea or coffee.
About the recipe:
My mother used to make this regularly; it was never exactly the same twice in succession but always turned out well and was always eaten.
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