Dee’s Grandmother’s Bread Pudding

Ingredients:

• 8/9 slices bread (white/brown mix is good) – remove crusts if crusty, use 1 slice of bread less if including crusts)
• 400 g mixed fruit /candied peel
• 1  small cooking apple – washed, peeled, cored, and chopped small/or grated
• 1 medium pear – washed, cored and chopped small
• 2  tablespoon light brown sugar
• 2  medium eggs – beat with fork
• 1  teaspoon lemon juice
• 300 ml milk
• 100 g butter, gently melted
• 2  tablespoons plum jam (or something similar)
• 2  tablespoons rich marmalade

Method:

• Chop or tear up bread into smallish pieces, put in big mixing bowl and add milk, leave to soak whilst getting other ingredients ready.
• Add all of the other ingredients and give a good stir in, and mix well.
• Preheat oven on Gas 2 / 150c.
• Butter a deep 7” tin and pour mixture in the tin, spreading evenly.
• Cook for 1 hour. Then cover the top with tin foil and cook a further 30 minutes.
• Turn heat up to Gas 4 / 180c and cook for a further 45 minutes.
• Check cooked, remove from tin and cool on wire tray.

Great for freezing – slice into portions, or leave as a slab and wrap in greaseproof paper, and freeze. To defrost, take out of the freezer and leave in fridge or leave out for about 3-4 hours.
To reheat, wrap in foil and pop in oven for 30 minutes at Gas 4 / 180c.