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Approx a loaf worth of stale bread, leave it spread out for a couple of hours to dry out a bit...
4 eggs
½Block lard( approx 4oz)
½Block hard butter ( approx 4oz)
One cup of plain flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
½ cup dark brown sugar
Two cups of dried fruit but must include sultanas
Two heaped teaspoons mixed spice ( cake spice)
One heaped teaspoon ground cinnamon
One heaped teaspoon ground ginger( optional)
Rum or brandy( optional)
One cup of hot water
Take a very big bowl..... I use a washing up bowl, mixing bowl just aren't big enough
tear the bread into chunks and pour on the hot water and work it into the bread until it looks like very lumpy porridge
Add Everything else and squidge between your fingers until it's a horrible brownish sludge with small lumps of lard and butter still visible.
Take a well greased meat dish and spread the mixture evenly
Cover with buttered greaseproof paper
Bake in a moderate oven for about 90 minutes check with a knife or skewer which should come out cleanly. If still sticky test every 5 minutes Take off greaseproof, sprinkle top with sugar and put back in oven for about another 15 minutes
Allow to cool.....
I am evil and pour a generous measure of booze into it as it cools This isnt a totally traditional recipe but it is suitably heavy and moist.... I make it at Christmas replacing half the fruit with a jar of mincemeat, and chopped walnuts..it's very forgiving if you want to play with it.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Oh thank you, thank you, thank you for this! I have been trying to make bread pudding 'as my grandma made it in the 1930s & 40s) for OH for years and it's never quite 'right' - although he chews manfully.
This seems to have everything - I'll give it a go when we get back from our holiday in Scotland at the end of September XXXX
('Mutter, mutter, mutter, now tell me it's not quite right!' There may be lurid details of a pudding-spattered corpse found later in the year...........)
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