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.

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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 mins

Cook Time30 mins

Total Time45 mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: English

Servings: 8

Calories: 303kcal

Ingredients

 

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• 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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