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Prep Time:
20Mins
Cook Time:
60Mins
Serves:
- 2 - 4 People
Ingredients:
- 10 - 12 slices good-quality hand-cut white batch bread, crusts removed
- 50g / 2 oz best Irish butter (plus extra for greasing the baking dish)
- Freshly grated nutmeg (around ½ a teaspoon)
- Cinnamon – optional (around 1 teaspoon if using)
- 115g / 4 oz (more if you want!) of good quality raisins or sultanas
- 275ml / 10 fl oz milk
- 60ml / 2 ½ fl oz cream
- 4 large organic eggs or local free range eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 55g / 2 oz castor sugar
- 1 tablespoon of sugar to sprinkle on top
- Pinch of salt
You will need:
Well buttered 1.2 litre / 2 pint oblong (oven proof) baking dish (and larger similar shaped dish to make a bain-marie)
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C / 350°F / Gas 4
- Remove the crusts from the bread, butter each slice (one side only) and then cut each slice into half (diagonally to make triangles).
- Arrange one layer of bread, buttered-side down over the base of the buttered baking dish.
- Sprinkle the bottom layer with some cinnamon and half the raisins.
- Repeat the same steps making a second layer.
- Cover the second layer of raisins with the remaining bread, again, buttered-side down.
Next make the custard:
- Measure out the milk and add the cream, then whisk together with the eggs, vanilla extract, sugar (add a pinch of salt if using unsalted butter).
- Pour the mixture through a fine sieve over the bread. Sprinkle the sugar over the top of the pudding, and some freshly grated nutmeg
- Cover the pudding and allow soak up the custard for at least 1 hour, or you could even refrigerate over night (if soaking overnight – reserve some custard and add before cooking the next day).
To cook
- Place the pudding in a bain-marie (pour in enough water to come halfway up the sides of the baking dish), and bake in the middle of the oven for about 40 – 50 minutes (maybe up to 1 hour), until the top is crisp and golden and the custard is set.
- Serve the pudding warm with some softly whipped Irish cream, or extra custard.