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Bread and butter pudding recipe

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Ingredients

  • 600 ml milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod, chopped
  • 4 thick slices brioche
  • Few knobs of butter
  • handful of sultanas
  • Grating of nutmeg
  • Crème Anglaise, to serve

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 180°C. Warm the milk gently with the chopped vanilla pod, then remove it from the heat and strain out the pod pieces.
  2. Whisk the egg with the tablespoon of sugar, then gradually whisk in the warm vanilla milk.
  3. Cut the brioche into triangles, spread them with the butter and arrange them in a baking dish. Scatter over the sultanas.
  4. Pour the custard mixture over the brioche, grate nutmeg over the top and bake for about 20 minutes, until risen, golden and set through.
  5. Serve with crème anglaise.