Brown Bread Pudding

Bread was ubiquitous on the Victorian table, whether rich or poor, so inevitably that meant a lot of stale bread. Waste was frowned upon, however, and consequently there was a wide range of recipes designed to make use of bread, whether in the form of crumbs, slices or chunks. This pudding uses brown bread, traditionally associated with the poor, but which became slightly more popular at the end of the 19th century as manufacturers promoted it on health grounds. It is prevented from being a