Bread and Butter Pudding with Creme Anglaise

Bread features in many desserts. I think it safe to say that, originally, there would have been the need to simply use up stale bread, and then a number of bright young folk recognized that it could be used in sweet things. This is a version of the classic baked bread and butter pudding. These days in restaurants, stale bread is not used. Indeed, in many cases, bread is baked especially for the pudding – brioche, panettone and raisin bread are all finding their way into this great dessert.