Bread Pudding

Name: Bread Pudding
Ingredients: 300 g water; 500 g brown or white bread; ½ tsp ground cinnamon; 60 g raisins; ½ tsp mixed spice; 60 g sultanas; 200 g caster sugar (plus extra for dusting); 4 eggs, beaten

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Le Caprice

By AA Gill and Mark Hix

Published 1999

About

An ideal dessert to use up stale brown or white bread.

First seen being served to our staff one day, it was decided to try it in the restaurant with cinnamon ice cream.

Ingredients

300 g water
200 g caster sugar (plus extra for dusting)
½

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Bring the water, sugar, spices, sultanas and raisins to the boil then pour into a large bowl.

Break the bread into small pieces and mix into the dried fruit mix.

Cover with clingfilm and leave to soak overnight.

Pre-heat the oven to 175°C/gas mark 4.

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