Topic: bread pudding.

[qahtan]

 My brother is coming tomorrow so I have made one of his favourites, bread pudding. yum... qahtan...

[Flighty]

I reckon that he'll be pleased!   That was my dad's favourite!

[Hyacinth]

The smell of it slowly cooking is one of my favourite kitchen smells, and oh! the taste is good too! I've a friend who makes it very frequently, so I've a corner piece on permanent order 8)

[mummybunny]

I know what you mean Hyacinth the corner piece always tastes the best  ;D

[Jeanbean]

Hi there Qahtan
Any chance of your reicpe? I have just been looking for a spicy bread pudding recipe on internet. I have been asked to make some for next week. The recipe I have seems to be a bit tasteless. Thanks JB

[Palustris]

Ah, but what do you mean by 'bread pudding'? The one we make is different to the Bread and Butter pudding which Prince Charles likes.

[Ninnyscrops.]

Hi there Qahtan
Any chance of your reicpe? I have just been looking for a spicy bread pudding recipe on internet. I have been asked to make some for next week. The recipe I have seems to be a bit tasteless. Thanks JB

Ditto  :)

Ninnys

[tonybloke]

tracie's recipe
1lb stale bread
1 pint water/milk (50/50)
4oz brown sugar
2 teaspoon mixed spice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
8 oz raisins/sultana mix
8oz glace cherries
2 oz melted butter
2 eggs (beaten)

method

soak bread overnight
mash with wooden spoonto break into small pieces
add all dry ingredients, mix well, then add eggs and butter; mix again, adding more milk if necessary. mixture should be quite thick, and not too runny.

place in 11" oven-proof dish, cook 30 - 40 mins, gas mark 4

[Jeanbean]

Cheers Tonybloke, am going to give recipe a whirl :)

[Hyacinth]

Ah, but what do you mean by 'bread pudding'? The one we make is different to the Bread and Butter pudding which Prince Charles likes.

Bread/bread&butter puddings = two different beasts, Eric. Bread pudding - you can stick a square of that in yer back pocket to sustain you through a winter's day toil in your estate. Bread and butter pud would be a bit sloppy for that ;D

[Palustris]

I knows that Lish and you knows it too, but wondered which one Quatan makes.
Until my Mother started making a bread pudding (similar in recipe to the one posted) when she was a School cook, no-one there had ever heard of it before. When she tried to remember the recipe for us, she could not (well she is 90!) and when we researched the Interweb thingy we could not find much reference to it either. Since then there have been a few recipes posted.

[Hyacinth]

Bread pud's gone a bit up-market these days if there are glace cherries in it ;D

[Melbourne12]

A long time ago I did domestic science at school and there was a lesson where you had to produce something made out of leftovers.  I said I wanted to make a bread pudding and the teacher kept telling me it was actually a bread and butter pudding and got cross when I argued that I knew what a bread and butter pudding was and a bread pudding was completely different.  Eventually I gave up (force majeure triumphed) but went home and got my ingredients together and made a bread pudding.  She had never heard of it either but had to admit that it did qualify.  My mum's recipe went
some stale bread
enough suet
some dried fruit depending on what needs using up in the cupboard
some egg, one or two depending on how many you have
some milk
I never did get any quantities out of her but it does more or less work. 
The method was the same as already posted.

[tonybloke]

Bread pud's gone a bit up-market these days if there are glace cherries in it ;D

try it 'topped' with sesame seeds before baking.
then, serve warm, drizzled with your own floral honey, and a large serving of double creammmmmmmmmmmmm

[Hyacinth]

Melbourne's recipe is much closer to the one my friend makes (and my mother did) and the principal of using up leftover stale bread - and suet, not butter, the same. It was a frugal bread/pud - and none the worse for that, either 8)

Bread-and-butter pud, made with an egg custard mix, and then served with Bird's custard, was much more a luxury dish ;)

[qahtan]

 This was proper bread pudding, I'm a Londoner, I know bread and butter pudding from bread pudding.
 What I made was the real one...... No I don't put cherries in mine.. ;-))))
 My brother took the little that was left home with him. :-)))
 It is more a make it up as you go along recipe.
 
 I just put a fair bit of bread, with crusts into food processor pulsed to crumbs, added a lump of butter (can't get suet here) on top of crumbs, pulsed again. tip into bowl, added brown sugar, sultanas, see I said sultanas not white raisins as they are called over here, added Sun maid raisins,and some currants, then mixed spice,
 mace, cinnamon, and nutmeg, it seems to take a lot of sprce.
             Add eggs and milk to make almost sloppy mixture, let rest a while  give another stir, bake in buttered dish 380.                             qahtan

[rosebud]

 My Mother & father used to make a bread pudding like this & i still do.
Soak stale bread in water to soften then strain it in a collander,  press the water out with a plate, i actually squeeze mine its quicker.
Tip in a large mixing bowl
Add i cup sugar
tablespoon of mixed spice( Level)
Pkt vegatable suet
large Pkt mixed fruit.
Stir very well indeed
put into your baking tin, i use middle size roasting tin.
Bake for 1 or 1 & half hours 160
Sprinkle with sugar when you take it out of the oven.
Yum  meeeee.

[Jeanbean]

Thanks all for your recipes. I can see that I shall be buried under a pile of bread pudding once I have tried them all ::) My mother used to absolutely hate making bread pudding as she couldn't stand squeezing out the soggy bread and Dad refused to eat it whenever I made it as he said it was the only recipe that my nan made for the family to try and fill them up. Times were hard in the east end of London in the 20's/30's. JB

[PurpleHeather]

I am crossing two barriers here because I bought two gluten free chocolate danish recently and found that it was like chewing a brick. Since they are not cheap I decided to put make the second one into a type of bread and butter pudding by adding just a mix of beaten egg and a milk substitute so that it was both gluten and lactose free and it worked very well.

I have used brioche and even hot cross buns to make bread and butter puddings.

Bread pudding I find to be heavy but the taste is down to the spices added and substituting brown sugar or demerara for white makes a lot of difference, even a spoon of honey.

[tim]

"well she is 90" - what cheek, Eric!!

It's 'with butter' for me. But no, you can't take it to work.