Comforting Bread and Butter Pudding

Bread and butter pudding is a classic English dessert, and a favourite way to use up stale bread and withering fruits. It may not be glamorous, but it is incredibly warm and comforting. Although traditionally made with sultanas, I recommend leaving these out, as they don’t seem to be very popular with children these days!

You can add almost any fruit to a bread and butter pudding; I like to use cinnamon in my recipe, so apples, pears, bananas, and blueberries all work very well.

Bread and Butter Pudding

A quintessentially English pudding and the epitome of comfort food, bread and butter pudding is a fantastic way to utilise old bread, and sad looking fruit.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time45 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: English
Servings: 8
Calories: 303kcal

Ingredients
 
 

  • 400 ml whole milk
  • 75 g unsalted butter (plus extra for greasing)
  • 75 g brown sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 300 g white bread
  • 3 pears (or other fruit)
  • 1 tbsp demerara sugar

Instructions

  • Pre-heat the oven to 200c / 180c fan.
  • Add the milk and butter to a medium saucepan, and heat gently until the butter is completely melted.
  • Remove from the heat and set aside.
  • In a heatproof mixing jug, whisk the sugar, eggs, cinnamon, and vanilla.
  • Add a splash of the warm milk mixture and whisk thoroughly.
  • Add a little more milk and whisk again, repeating until everything is well incorporated.
  • Grease a suitably sized baking dish with some more unsalted butter; I used a 26cm rectangular stoneware dish with a 2.3 litre capacity.
  • Core the pears, and cut them into neat slices, then layer the bread and fruit into the dish, as attractively as you can.
  • Carefully pour over the custard mixture, then sprinkle the pudding with some demerara sugar.
  • Bake for 30 minutes, until golden brown and set.

Nutrition

Calories: 303kcalCarbohydrates: 42gProtein: 7gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 87mgSodium: 234mgPotassium: 222mgFiber: 3gSugar: 22gVitamin A: 421IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 184mgIron: 2mg
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