Dessert Recipes - Special Bread Pudding Recipe

Ingredients

• 8 slices of day-old bread

• 100 g/4 oz/2/3 cup dried mixed fruit (fruit cake mix)

• 30 ml/2 tbsp apricot jam (conserve)

• 10 ml/2 tsp mixed (apple-pie) spice

• 50 g/2 oz/1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted, plus extra for greasing

• 75 g/3 oz/1/3 cup light brown sugar

• Caster (superfine) sugar; for sprinkling

• Ice cream, to serve

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Method:

1. Break up the bread and place in a bowl. Soak in water for 15 minutes, then squeeze dry with the hands. Return to the bowl and beat with a fork until smooth.

2. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Turn into a greased 1.75 liter/7 1/2 cup baking tin (pan).

3. Bake in a preheated oven at 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5 for about 1 1/2 hours or until golden and firm. Sprinkle with caster sugar and serve warm with ice cream.