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mum's bread pudding
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- 30 mins to 1 hr
- Easy
- Serves 10
Ingredients
chuck in as much as you like of the following: bread (preferably brown wholemeal) (not fresh) I sometimes use sliced
- milk (skimmed or semi)
- eggs beaten with a drop of milk
- luxury dried mixed fruit plus raisins
- mixed spice/cinnamon
- anything in storecupboard, e.g. jam/syrup
- small amount of flour to bind
- suet (beef or vegetarian) not too much!
- jar of mincemeat (1 or 2 if you are making a big one!)
- grated carrot
Method
- STEP 1soak the bread in the milk for 30mins/1 hr.
- STEP 2squeeze out the bread
- STEP 3mix all the other ingredients with the sloppy bread leaving the flour til last, add just enough to help bind it all
- STEP 4lightly butter a roasting tin. Put the mixture in and smooth it down, then run a fork over it and sprinkle it with a little sugar
- STEP 5bake in the oven fan 140 for an hour or so till browning on top. Don't overcook it or it'll dry it out. Enjoy hot or cold.
