This is very typical of the thrifty puds made of stale bread and store cupboard items.I have adapted the balance of ingredients from a number of recipes to suit my tastes.
Recipe posted by Unknown User
BREAD PUDDING
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Ingredients
- 8 oz stale bread
- 0.4 pints skimmed milk
- 2 oz dark brown sugar
- 3 oz coarsely grated vegetable shortening (freeze overnight to make it easier to grate) (low fat vegetarian)
- 8 oz mixed dried fruit
- 1 tablespoon mixed spice
- ½ teaspoon fresh grated nutmeg
- 1 lemon (grated zest and juice)
- 1 orange (juice)
- 1 beaten egg
- superfine sugar
Method
- Grease a 7'' square tin
- Tear bread into small bits, put into mixing bowl and soak it in the milk for ½ an hour. Weigh out the other ingredients then preheat oven to 180C/gas 4.
- Fork the bread in the milk then use a wooden spoon to stir in turn the spice, zests, coarsely grated vegetable shortening (freeze overnight to make it easier to grate), brown sugar and finally the dried fruit and mix well.
- Beat in the egg then a small amount of orange or lemon juice. Smooth into the tin and make sure top is reasonably flat. Cook for 1 hr 15mins on middle shelf.
- The top should be brown and firm. Remove from oven, sprinkle over a small amount of superfine sugar and cool in the tin before cutting into squares.
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