Baking - pictures.

[curiouswombat]

I have a couple of pictures to go with yesterday's recipes. But first - bread pudding vs bread and butter pudding.

In the parlance of most of Britain, these are not the same thing. And it seems as if North Americans call what we know as Bread and Butter Pudding, Bread Pudding. It's another of those food conundrums like biscuits...

The dish made with sliced bread, buttered and layered, usually with some type of fruit addition, then covered with egg custard mixture and baked until the bread crisps and the custard sets, is known to most of us over here as Bread and Butter Pudding. Here is a basic recipe with picture.

Bread pudding is made by taking stale bread, breaking it into chunks, and soaking it in milk, or even water, for a while. Then squeezing out the excess fluid, adding spices, sugar, an egg, and dried fruit, pressing it into a baking tin and baking it. Here is a recipe and picture of Bread Pudding. Bread pudding is eaten in a hunk like cake rather than with a spoon!

As for Wet Nelly - this was made like bread pudding - except left over cake was used and so it needed less soaking, more just damping down. Then, at least at our local bakery when I was a child, this mixture was baked between two layers of shortcrust pastry, and sprinkled with sugar. So - it was recycling old cake into new!

Anyway - pictures of fruitloaf and gingerbread

The problem is that two different brown cakes looks rather boring...




Even when you get closer to them...



But they do taste good!

Comments

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar enough with bread pudding to know which I've had or how they were made. (all I know is it's usually tasty - but often quite different) Must ask my oldest son if he knows. It's his favorite dessert and he tries the bread pudding everywhere he eats if they have it on the menu. Perhaps the differences we see or taste are because sometimes he's getting bread and butter pudding and sometimes bread pudding. :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I think it is one of those things that almost every country will have a variant of - and there will be different variants in different parts of each country too!

So quite fun to try in different places. There are variants in the comments here, or the chatter at Faerie, that include sultanas, raisins, mixed fruit, marmalade, strawberry jam and mincemeat - some with spice, some without, and so on. Also some with plain white bread, some with brioche, some with cinnamon rolls... I guess, in the fist place, you added whatever you had to the stale bread. Nowadays you can use what gives you the best taste!