Oh @steephill. You're missing the joys of bubble and squeak but, in compensation, you don't have to eat bread and butter pudding😝 . A difficult one there.
Especially when made with brioche and home-made marmalade! Chef at the school where I'm helping them cook in English is still talking about it a year later.
The great thing about our Xmas dinner is that there is no turkey and no leftovers/seconds to recycle. We can have what we like on Boxing Day.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Anything made out of soggy bread is a travesty. Especially that italian thing where you hollow out a loaf and shove wet things in it. Stuffing, breadcrumbs or French toast - the only acceptable uses for old bread. -
Never had bread pudding and never want to. Never use sliced bread or even ordinary bread here hence why B&B pudding is done with brioche which I buy on purpose for this dish. Occasionally buy a decent loaf a bread for making panzanella in summer with home grown tomatoes and cucumbers and herbs.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Oh @steephill. You're missing the joys of bubble and squeak but, in compensation, you don't have to eat bread and butter pudding😝 . A difficult one there.
Bubble & Squeak followed by Bread & Butter pudding. Bliss on a plate (OK two plates if you're posh)
@Obelixx ...never had bread pudding? Old stale bread, soaked in water, then with a bit (load) of butter added, dried mixed fruit and loads of spices and rebaked? Lovely stuff - like hot cross buns. Brilliant way of using up leftover bread. (@Lyn - totally with you).
Bread & Butter Pudding and Bread Pudding are different things, at least to me they are. Bread & Butter pudding I've had has been made with buttered day or two old bread with milk or a thin custard, dried fruit and spices, not bread old enough to need soaking in water. Bread pudding is the stuff you buy over the counter in bakers which is really solid and heavy.
I make both BP and B&BP, to the appreciation of my family and friends. At Christmas, I make B&BP with panettone, slices of stem ginger and marzipan. Food for the gods. At Easter, I use hot cross buns. When living in France, I tried to introduce my host family to BP, but it doesn't work with baguette, it goes too soft and sloppy and you can't squeeze the surplus water out.
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The great thing about our Xmas dinner is that there is no turkey and no leftovers/seconds to recycle. We can have what we like on Boxing Day.
Stuffing, breadcrumbs or French toast - the only acceptable uses for old bread. -
Bubble & Squeak followed by Bread & Butter pudding. Bliss on a plate (OK two plates if you're posh)