Name: Christmas Bread and Butter Pudding
Yield: Serves 4–6
Ingredients: 6 x 15 ml tablespoons fig jam or mincemeat; 3 large eggs, at room temperature; 300 ml full-fat milk, at room temperature; Icing sugar, for dusting; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 300 ml double cream, at room temperature; 6 x 15 ml tablespoons (90 g) soft unsalted butter, plus more to grease dish; 6 slices of white bread; 2 x 15 ml tablespoons (25 g) caster sugar; 1½ teaspoons demerara sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cook, Eat, Repeat

By Nigella Lawson

Published 2020

About

I love the Christmas ritual of endless cold cuts. For me, that’s an essential part of the season. But I know there are those who can grow restive when they see that poor old bird brought out for the third time. However, any grumbling over the cold comfort of what seems the constant reappearance of Christmas lunch leftovers can be soothingly silenced, the mutiny dispelled, by a hot pudding straight from the oven.

A bread and butter pudding is pretty effortless to make, and this speci