Bread Pudding
Ingredients
To prepare pudding:
16 slices of white plain sweet bread, crust sliced off
3 small eggs
2 1/2 cups of whole milk
2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons raisins
2 tablespoons walnuts, chopped
2 tablespoons cashewnuts, chopped
1 tsp vanilla essence
Candied cherries, for garnish
Method
- Blend the sugar, milk, essence and eggs in the blender to get a smooth
liquid.
- Grease a rectangular deep pan with butter or oil and place 8 slices of
bread to cover the bottom.
- Sprinkle one tablespoon each of the rasins/nuts on it.
- Now pour the blended egg/milk mixture on top of it.
- Place a second layer of the remaining 8 bread slices, sprinkle the remaining nuts/raisins and pour the remaining mixture on it.
- Bake it in a oven for about 35 minutes(approx,may vary depending on the oven) at 375 deg F till done.
- When tested with a thin knife(toothpick), the knife(tothpick) should come out clean.
- Take it out and cool for 10 minutes.
To prepare custard topping:
2 tablespoon custard powder, dissolved in some warm milk
2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
Method
- Heat the sugar and milk.When sugar dissolved completely, add the custard and keep stirring.
- The mixture thickens.Take it off the fire and let it cool for 10 minutes.
- Pour this custard mixture on top of the baked dish and let it chill in the fridge for 2 hours.
- Cut it into slices and garnish with a candied cherry or two.
- Serve as dessert.
