Bread Pudding
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- 30 mins for soaking the bread
- Easy
- Serves 12
Ingredients
- 400g Bread
- 100g sugar caster or soft brown
- 175g butter
- 75ml or 5 tablespoons mixed spice
- 400g dried mix fruit
- juice and zest of 1 lemon
- juice and zest of 1 orange
- 2 eggs beaten
- caster sugar to serve
Method
- STEP 1break the bread up into small pieces and place it ino a bowl and cover with water and leave to stand for 30mins
- STEP 2preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4
- STEP 3squess all the water out of the bread a sieve is quite handy for this and then crumble this into a mixing bowl
- STEP 4add the sugar spice fruit and the fruit juices and zest and mix well together
- STEP 5melt the butter in a saucepan then add this and mix well you are looking for a dropping consistency add a little milk if you need to
- STEP 6Pour into a greased roasting dish approx 250mm x 300mm and bake for 90 mins at 180c gas mark 4 cover with greaseproof paper if it starts to get too brown it should be firm to the touch then spinkle with caster sugar and cut into 12