Bread Pudding With Stewed Dried Fruit
DELICIOUS: Bread Pudding With Stewed Dried Fruit DELICIOUS: Bread Pudding With Stewed Dried Fruit
Cape Malay Cooking with Fatima Sydow
Ingredients
- for the bread pudding
- 8 slices white bread, crust removed
- 1 litre milk
- 4 tablespoons custard
- powder mixed with half a cup of milk
- 8 large eggs
- 1 cup of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of soft butter
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla essence
- 3 cardamom pods
- 3 cinnamon sticks
For the sauce
- 2 tablespoons of fine apricot jam
- 4 tablespoons of boiling water
Method
In a large bowl, beat the sugar and butter for a minute, add the eggs and beat well for about two minutes.
Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well until you see the bread is well incorporated and quite mushy and the sugar has dissolved.
Pour the mixture in a greased deep baking oven pan and bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for 55 minutes or until you see the edges turn a golden brown. Remove from oven.
For sauce: Mix two tablespoons fine apricot jam with four tablespoons boiling water. Pour this mix over the hot pudding.
Make stewed dried fruit by boiling two cups mixed dried fruit in three cups water, one cup sugar and two cinnamon sticks until the stewed fruit is soft and covered in a sweet, sticky sugar syrup.
Place the stewed fruit on top of the bread pudding and serve.