Bread n Butter Pudding Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 Eggs
• 300 ml Milk
• 45 ml Apricot jam
• 1 Vanilla pod, split
• 50 gm Castor Sugar
• Confectioner's Sugar
• 40 gm unsalted Butter
• 280 ml Double cream
• 6 slices of white Bread, crusts removed
• 50 gm Sultanas, soaked in water and drained

Method:

1. Boil the vanilla pod in the milk and cream. Cover and leave for 10 minutes.
2. Butter a large ovenproof dish.
3. Spread the slices of bread with butter and cut diagonally into quarters. Arrange in the dish with the sultanas between the slices.
4. Whisk the eggs together with the sugar.
5. Remove the vanilla pod from the milk and cream mixture and gradually stir this into the beaten eggs until well mixed.
6. Pour this mixture over the bread and leave to stand for about 15-20 minutes.
7. Bake in an oven pre-heated to 325°F.
8. Remove from the oven and allow to cool down a little.
9. Gently heat the jam, thinning it with 2-3tsp of water, strain and brush this glaze over the pudding. Dust with confectioner's sugar.