Bread Pudding

Bread Pudding is a classic British Dessert, delicious hot or cold and fantastic with a drizzle of homemade custard. 

This is a very simple recipe, You don't need to be a good cook to get great results. You'll also find there will be no use of mixing spoons in this as you will be using your hands!

Lets get started!

Step 1 What am I going to need?

Makes 12 portions:

1 Small loaf of stale bread or half a stale french stick.
100g of sugar
150g of dried mixed fruit
50g of vegetable suet (Or beef if your not veggie, whichever is fine)
3 Eggs
300ml milk
1L water (For soaking the bread with the milk)
1 Tbsp Butter (Melted)
1 Tsp mixed spice

You will also need,

Large mixing bowl
Sieve
Lined baking tray (deep)

Comments

[justjonty]

Fantastic! Really like the way you put this together...

[Joe Martin]

Thanks, I put quite a bit of work into the pictures and explaining my method as well as I can. Means a a lot!

[framil38]

Suet for cooking is not something readily available in the US.  Is there a substitute?

[Joe Martin]

The suet is only really there for the fat so you could grate some lard or use 1/4 of a cup of butter.

[l8nite]

my other half works in a sandwich shop where they cut the ends off of the hard rolls they make the sandwichs on, the bits are usually just tossed out but occasionally I'll have her bring a bag home and make a bread pudding a lot like yours but with out the long soak time. I use 6 beaten eggs, 2pints of heavy cream and a package of vanilla pudding (not instant) add in enough bread pieces to absorb the liquid, raisens or dried cranberries go in then place in a baking dish and into the oven .

 You version looks flatter and not as chunky but it looks tasty, I think I'll give it a try next time

[Joe Martin]

I would bring them home to make breadcrumbs with you can then freeze them and they last for ages, and cranberries sound lovely I'll have to add that to mine :P

If you do make it be sure to take a picture for me! :)

[l8nite]

That would be a good idea but they trim both ends off of 5-8 dozen rolls a day... thats a LOT of bread crumbs!  We bake some with garlic powder, like a big crouton, for cheese spreads etc and little ones come by for duck/seagull treats but theres still an over abundence every day.

 Next time I make bread pudding I'll do an "ible" of my variation, one cool side benefit of doing a recipe "ible" is my family have accessed the site to get the recipes...and then found others.....

[lemonie]

This looks super, but it's not the Bread & Butter pudding I know. There you arrange slices of buttered-bread with the dry ingredients in a dish, pour the eggs & milk over and bake.

L

[Joe Martin]

Yes, bread pudding is very different from it's friend bread and butter pudding.

Thank you L.

[lemonie]

Right, I get it. This pudding I don't know, but it makes still me feel like pudding....

L

[Mister_Caipirinha]

Excellent. What is in the "Mixed Spice" or does anyone know a North American equivalent?

[Joe Martin]

It's a mix of cinnamon, coriander, caraway, ginger, fennel, nutmeg, cloves and turmeric.

In a pinch you could you just cinnamon, I'm sure it would come out just fine!

[lebowski]

Awesome pictures! Nice job.

[Joe Martin]

Thank you, I've had my DSLR for almost a year now and I'm just starting to get the hang of it :P

[bertus52x11]

Bread pudding is great and I like your Instructable! 

Although I don't have any British ancestors who could have passed this classic recipe on, we have our own variation.
Probably not as refined as yours, but we eat it like a cake at all hours of the day (I even give it to my children for school).

I always use old bread that I freeze at regular intervals until I have enough (maybe an Idea?).

* break 300g of old bread. Soak it in 0,5 liter hot milk (to which 200g of sugar is added).
* squash it with the backside of a fork until you have a nice mushy mixture.
* In a separate bowl, whisk 5 eggs, add 75g of raisins, a bit of cinnamon and a spoonful vanilla custard.
* mix it with the bread, pour into a cake container and put it 45 minutes in the oven (200C).
 

[Joe Martin]

Wow, that really is quite similar! Also I freeze bread pretty much a slice at a time, it takes ages to get a full loaf though :P

Thank you for your comment!

[Joe Martin]

Oh and I always put a slice of it in my lunchbox too :)