I’ve always loved bread and butter pudding, the traditional one, not the chocolate one or the fancy sweet bread one, just the plain and simple bread and butter one. Now it’s best to use bread that is slightly ‘old’ but not green mouldy and no the mould would not add extra flavour. So slightly dry bread like the end of the loaf but not the crust might be a bit tough.so here goes …
6 slices of bread, white is best for this one
butter
3-4 tbsp sugar
1 pint milk – whole or semi
3 eggs beaten
dried fruit – to taste
nutmeg
You will need a pint dish with deep sides but not too deep, shape of your choosing but you don’t want a bowl/basin, i normally use a small lasagna dish but a casserole dish would do. Butter the dish. Butter the bread both sides (gets a bit messy but it’s worth it). Cut the bread into quarters and layers into the dish adding fruit as you go – i’m very sorry i’m not a measure i just tend to add the amount that looks right so i’m giving you permission to do the same. Heat the milk in a pan to warm but don’t boil it and if you do, leave it to cool to warm before adding the eggs. Now using a fine-sieve pour the milk through the sieve onto the bread in the dish. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Cook on gas mark 6 (medium/hot) for about 30 minutes. Make sure the egg mixture is set/cooked by inserting the point of a knife into the middle of the dish, if you can still see liquid it’s not cooked give it a few more minutes then try again.
NB you could add cooked fruit such as apple instead of the dried fruit and cinnamon.
NBB Its very nice cold for breakfast 
I love Bread Pudding, brings back memories of childhood and was always a great treat!
me too, usually on a weekend when the bread was a bit dry and we couldn’t put jam on it
yep, and then we smothered ours in Corn Syrup!
no custard
I don’t think custard was part of my French world! hee hee.
Oh I remember this, my grandmother used to make it all the time (only she used cinnamon instead of nutmeg)! I should try it.
you should, cinnamon is purely and american thing
Well then, I guess that’s what I should use
Making my mouth water here Beverley and Bread and Butter was one of my favourites that my Gran used to make… that along with home made rice pudding done in the old oven set next to the fire … Brought back a few nice memories.. Thank you for sharing
Sue
my Mother made rice pud baked in the open not out of a tin
I love how your bread and butter pudding looks EXACTLY like the one in the photo even though I bet you didn’t take a photo of the one you made haha.
And I like cinnamon too so I might have to try nutmeg and cinnamon 
xx
no the one in the pic is not mine, but i am pleased that you think mine looks like that and the one i made yesterday was divine
Can’t beat a bit of home made food from mum
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i made one the other day but a small one and then i ate it, it was good
xx
Can’t beat a bit of home made cooking from mum
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