Apple and Raisin Bread and Butter Pudding

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Cuisine: English/Scottish

Course: Desserts

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friederike

13 years ago

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Very nice! Next time I would skip the step cooking the apples in advance - they probably cook enough during the 45 minutes in the oven.
I had too little bread (I used slices of leftover sourdough, very delicious), so I made only one layer of apple instead of two, using bread on the bottom and on top; additionally, I stuffed the holes in the top layer with a few ladyfingers I had leftover from the Hot Coffee Creams we had in the weekend. I also used a few crumbs of the cantuccini I used in the s...

Very nice! Next time I would skip the step cooking the apples in advance - they probably cook enough during the 45 minutes in the oven.

I had too little bread (I used slices of leftover sourdough, very delicious), so I made only one layer of apple instead of two, using bread on the bottom and on top; additionally, I stuffed the holes in the top layer with a few ladyfingers I had leftover from the Hot Coffee Creams we had in the weekend. I also used a few crumbs of the cantuccini I used in the same dessert - almond flakes would also work very nicely. Mixing the raisins with the sugar and cinnamon turned out to be very unpractical when I had to scatter it on the layer of bread - nearly all the raisins ended up on the bottom layer, and almost all the sugar on top. DH thought it was slightly too eggy - I'm not sure what to do about that. More bread would probably help, but maybe also more cinnamon.

All in all, I think this was the nicest leftover dish we ever had.

Edited 22 February: Made this again, this time using 4-5 slices of toast and 4 small apples. This yielded 3 layers of bread and 2 of apple, and I needed a very deep dish to accommodate everything.

I didn't cook the apples, just added them raw, and they turned out fine. I was worried that this time I'd have too much bread/apples in relation to the egg/milk mixture as well as the sugar/cinnamon, but that wasn't a problem at all. I also mixed up the order of the layers: I only remembered adding the first half of the cinnamon/sugar after I had added the first layer of apple, and I forgot buttering the bread, so I just added a few small lumps of butter on the top apple layer (and buttered the top layer of bread, of course, which is vital to get them crunchy). None of this turned out to be a problem.

What I would do differently next time is that no matter how much bread and apples there are, I would try to make flat with just 2 layers of bread and one of apple, as the crust is really really great, and you'll have too little crust in relation to too much pudding otherwise.

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Queezle_Sister · 13 years ago

I was so excited to read your review -- it was the answer to my scraps of bread, apples, etc. Unfortunately, I had measured most of the ingredients before noticing my bread was beginning to mold. So -- I prepared breadless bread pudding by upping the apple and adding a bit of rolled oats. I rather liked it, but its far from bread pudding!

friederike · 13 years ago

Haha, we would have had enough bread - had I not noticed in time that half of it had already started to mold. I guess that will always be a problem with leftover bread. but using rolled oats is a creative solution! I also made a crumble last weekend using crunchy muesli - wasn't brilliant, but better than nothing.

Queezle_Sister · 13 years ago

It was quite delicious this morning as breakfast - apples, a bit of rolled oats, a bit of custard, and currents and spice. I used to cook without recipes, but cookbooker has led to back to using recipes and seeking new ingredients. But it was nice to remember when cooking was just putting together a selection of ingredients I had on hand.

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