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6
servingsEasy
Published 2003
This paragon of comfort food and brilliantly simple home cooking is not what the French call a pouding au pain à l’anglaise, an English-style bread pudding. It is what the English call bread-and-butter pudding. What distinguishes it from French “English” bread pudding (or, for that matter, from French French-style bread pudding) is both technical and spiritual. The English spread butter on whole slices of bread and steam them in a whole-egg custard in the oven. The French star