Janice Tripepi

Finally  – I have remembered Meat Free Monday!!!  This is a great way to re-cycle stale croissants.  I keep a ZipLock packet in my deep freeze and as I have stale croissants and such I pop them in until I have enough to make bread and butter pudding.  My gran always made me bread and butter pudding when I visited her during school holidays.  Nana would make it with stale bread and currants – it looked quite a bit different to mine – but the smell of it cooking always reminds me of my dear gran who passed away many years ago.  So this one’s for you Nana XXX  This is one of those puddings that can be adapted and change to suite your grocery cupboard.  I am one of those people who cannot resist buying jars of fruit soaked in booze!  So my bread and butter pudding always reflects what I have in my cupboard!!!  You can add fruit – nuts – chocolate – Go Wild!!!

Bread & Butter Pudding

Stale bread or croissants or chelsea buns – I used 4 stale almond croissants

6 eggs

1 cup of sugar – brown is best

1 vanilla pod or 1tsp of vanilla extract

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp cinnamon

pinch of salt

475ml fresh cream

1 cup of full cream milk

butter

icing sugar for dusting

1 jar of pears in brandy or soak some dried pears in the alcohol of your choice – I have done this

with calvados before (yummy)

1 bar of Lindt White Chocolates 

Pre-heat your oven to 160d

In a large bowl – beat the eggs together with the cream and milk 

add the nutmeg – cinnamon – pinch of salt – beans from the vanilla pod

Cut the croissants in half – like a bread roll – and generously butter each slice

Put them into the egg mixture and leave to soak for 10 minutes

Arrange them in an oven proof dish – placing two pears

between each croissant half with two blocks of white chocolate

Pour over the residual egg mixture

and sprinkle some sugar over the top

Cook for about half an hour when the egg has set to a soft wobble. 

Dust the top with icing sugar and serve with

either custard or double thick cream.

Go for a either a run or to the gym to pay for your sins!!! hehehe …