Bread Pudding with Nutmeg

⏳ Time

1 hour + 30 minutes

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

In Ireland, New Year's is celebrated much more boisterously than Christmas. Many traditions and superstitions have been preserved here. For example, if you are invited to a holiday gathering, you should knock on the door with a loaf of bread and then leave it for the host. This is believed to bring daily bread and prosperity into the home. So what do hosts do with their stockpiles of stale bread? They make a dish called 'gudi' — a sweet casserole similar to pudding. The bread is soaked in milk, generously sweetened with sugar and jam, and then baked in the oven.

Ingredients

Nutmeg - a pinch
Lemon - 1 piece
Chicken Egg - 6 pieces
Cream - 3 fl oz
Milk - 17 fl oz
Sugar - 3.5 oz
Butter - 7.1 oz
Raisins - 7.1 oz
White bread - 4 lbs

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Slice the bread. It's better if the bread is of different types, densities, and flavors. This will make the pudding more interesting. Generously spread butter on the bread — apply a thin layer, but do it quite generously.

Step 2

Grease a baking dish with butter and layer the bread inside (each layer should be a different type of bread), sprinkling the layers with rinsed and slightly soaked seedless raisins.

Step 3

Lightly beat the eggs. Mix the milk with sugar, cream, and lemon zest, and gently heat (but do not boil). Combine the milk mixture with the beaten eggs and pour this mixture over the bread and raisins in the baking dish.

Step 4

Sprinkle with freshly grated nutmeg on top and place in the oven at 356°F for 30-40 minutes. The finished pudding should have a dry crust and a soft, fluffy interior. Serve hot.