Raspberry Bread and Butter Puddings

When I suggested including an apricot bread and butter pudding in my cookery course at Ballymaloe in Ireland, I was asked, most tactfully, if that was not rather a heavy pudding for summer. I can be stubborn sometimes, and did indeed cook bread and butter pudding, of which everyone asked for seconds. Apricots not being available, however, I used fresh raspberries instead, which, when sprinkled with sugar and layered between the bread, cooked down to an exquisite, freshly flavoured jamminess