Fruity Bread Pudding

[gazza1960]

After Jude couldnt get me mum some at the weekend I decided to knock one up today.

12 thick slices Any bread
½ pt semi skimmed milk
1 Cooking Apple (skinned and grated)
12 oz dried fruit (mixed or whatever you prefer)
8oz of dried dates
2 oz Lemon Peel
3-4 tablsp Quince Jelly
3 Tablsp soft brown sugar
3 Tablesp of Tamarind Sauce
2 Medium eggs. beaten
1.5 oz SR Flour
1 teasp cinnamon powder
2 teasp Mixed spice
2 teasp Orange Juice
4 oz Butter



12 Brown bread slices torn into a bowl.


Pore milk into bowl and let it soak in bread pieces.


add all the other ingredients apart from the butter and mix together.


melt butter and pore half into mixture and blend,then pore remainder over top of cooking dish.


Cook for 2 hours @ 160degrees then turn heat up to 200 for another 20 mins till outside is crisp
then remove from oven and sprinkle with sugar.



Let it cool and cut into chunks and scoff with coffee.


Or warm some custard and serve it with some Cinnamon powder over the top.

Enjoy  !!!!!!!!!!!!  I know me mum will.

""Baggsy the crunchy end bits"""

Gazza

[gazza1960]

[galina]

Wow, that looks good!  Another use for tamarind paste, very ingenious.  And quince jelly too.  Interesting.  I can smell it just by looking at the pictures  ;D

[Melbourne12]

I made this last night, and I'm eating a piece with my coffee at this very moment.

It's extra special! I'd not thought of using dates in a bread pudding, and I wondered whether they'd dominate the taste, but they don't.

The only thing I hadn't got was quince jelly (well, I had, but with chilli, which I felt might have detracted), so I used pumpkin marmalade instead.

Brilliant.  Thanks, Gazza  :)

[gazza1960]

Nice one Melbourne,im glad to enjoyed the recipe.
No claim to fame here as we all use old recipes and add or take away things to suit our tastebuds.
I actually added the dates and Tamarind sauce,the dates taste nice left whole and the sauce is sweet and sour
which is different from high street pudding.

I took 4 pieces to the CCU @ St Peters yesterday to see me dad as unfortunately he is a frequent visitor,but the staff enjoy it too  after a 16 hour day on ya feet a cuppa and a slice of pudding sets you straight.

Gazza