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Bread Pudding
Dense English bread pudding with dried fruit, brown sugar and mixed spice.
About Bread Pudding
Jan Bennett’s English bread pudding follows the family style she associates with her mother and grandmother. This profile selects their explicitly documented original water-soaked bread, alongside the published fruit-and-spice recipe.
Mixed dried fruit and brown sugar give sweetness, with cinnamon, nutmeg and mixed spice supplying the seasoning. Butter and egg enrich the bread mixture, with caster sugar on top.
The pudding has a dense, moist body with fruit throughout. It is presented as a square tray bake and can be eaten warm or cold.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Egg, Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Bread Pudding
Jan Bennett’s traditional English bread pudding, original water-soaked style.
- Stale crusty breadBase
- WaterLiquid
- EggBinder
- Soft dark brown sugarSweetener
- Mixed dried fruitFilling
- Ground cinnamonSeasoning
- NutmegSeasoning
- Mixed spiceSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Unsalted butterBinder
- Caster sugarTopping
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Stale crusty bread: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Normal wheat bread; author specifies regular crusty loaf such as bloomer and excludes pre-sliced sandwich bread. Exact loaf formula unknown.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Original mother/grandmother soaking medium explicitly confirmed in narrative and author reply; replaces modern milk
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Soft dark brown sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Mixed dried fruit: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Fruit composition and processing unspecified
- Ground cinnamon: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Nutmeg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Mixed spice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. British mixed-spice blend; formula unspecified
- Unsalted butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
- Caster sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
Origins & food traditions
English family bread-pudding tradition; source explicitly confirms original water rather than modern milk soaking.
Countries
- United Kingdom
- Saint Kitts and NevisCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- English Cuisine
- Saint Kitts and Nevis CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.