Recipe Type: Dessert
Prep time: 50 mins
Total time: 50 mins
Serves: 4
Bread and Butter Pudding is surely the ultimate transformation of leftover bread!! A classic comfort dessert, it’s custardy on the inside, golden and buttery on top. The only question is this: what will you serve it with? Ice cream, cream, custard – or something else?
No wait. Homemade Ice Cream and Homemade Custard. Ahhh!!! That is the ultimate combination, surely!!!
Ingredients
- 250ml double cream
- 65 ml milk
- 50 g caster sugar
- 3-4 saffron strands
- 3 eggs
- A little butter for greasing
- 6 slices white bread, buttered and sliced into 4 triangles
- 50 g ready-to-eat dried papaya, finely chopped (Here papaya has been substituted for the sultanas or raisins. But you could also try dried apricots or even mangoes.)
- 25 g pistachio nuts, crushed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180º C / 350º F / Gas Mark 4.
- Mix the cream with the milk and add the sugar and saffron strands.
- Whisk the eggs and add them to the cream mixture.
- Butter a deep ovenproof dish 15cm x 22cm / 6 inches x 9 inches, put into it a layer of bread, then sprinkle over some papaya/raisins/apricots/mangoes and nuts.
- Add another layer of bread then some more nuts and papaya.
- Pour the cream mixture over the bread and put the dish into the oven for 30-35 minutes, until the surface is a rich golden brown.
- Serve immediately.
Tip:
Add a pinch of nutmeg and another of cinnamon to the cream mixture.
