Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe
A century ago, easy bread pudding recipes like this one were always a favorite dessert recipe with farm housewives. Try this classic dish; it's totally delicious!
Butter stale bread.
Place a layer of bread and butter in bottom of baking dish.
Strew raisins and currants over this, then lay another layer of bread and butter with another layer of fruit over it.
Have bread and butter on top.
Make a custard of 2 eggs to 3 cups of milk and 1/2 cup sugar.
Pour this over pudding, and bake in a slow oven for 1-1/2 hours.
Aunt Rachel's Bread Pudding
Aunt Rachel, in the Rural New Yorker, says: "A pudding may be made of small pieces of bread, if the family taste does not rebel. (I never see the family taste rebel against so good a pudding.)
The bread should be broken fine, covered with milk, and set on the stove where it is not too hot, until it becomes soft.
Remove and stir in a tablespoonful of sugar,
1 of butter,
a small teaspoonful of salt,
also a pinch of cinnamon, or allspice, and, if liked,
1/2 cup of chopped or cut raisins, or dried raspberries.
When cool enough, stir in an egg, well beaten, and bake 1 hour in a moderate oven.
To be eaten with cream and sugar, or pudding sauce, as preferred."
Easy Bread Pudding Recipes
These easy bread pudding recipes are taken from
Mom's old recipe scrapbook, circa 1929.
Here is an old-time recipe tip Mom always followed when making her homemade bread puddings: When using stale bread for puddings, always soak it in cold liquid, not hot. Bread that has been soaked in cold milk or water will be more crumbly and light in the pudding.
Bread and Fruit Pudding Recipe
Cut bread in slices about 1/2 inch thick, remove the crust and line a pudding basin with the slice.
Then place therein a layer of fresh fruit
(blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, currant, plum
or other juicy fruit).
Sprinkle over a little sugar, and place a slice
of bread over alternating layers of fruit and
bread sufficient to fill the basin. Tie up in a cloth and boil as usual.
Makes an excellent dish served up cold with a coating of whipped white of egg and castor sugar.
This is an Old Country favorite.