Bread and butter pudding – version 1 July 13, 2010

I’m probably one of the few people who gets excited waking up to a dreary drizzly day,

delicious and squishy

to me it shouts “cook something warm!”. Many thanks to Delia for teaching me to make bread and butter pudding, these days it has developed a little into the recipe below, although it changes every time depending on my mood and what I have in the cupboard.

15 slices bread (from a small loaf), crusts on

Enough butter for the slices of bread and to grease the pan (approx. 50-100g depending on how heavy a knife hand you have)

4 chopped dried apricots, or 10g candied orange peel, or a bit of marmalade on each slice

50-100g raisins

275ml milk

60ml double cream (or just use more milk)

50g caster sugar

Grated zest ½ small lemon

3 eggs

A sprinkling of nutmeg or cinnamon