About the Recipe
This recipe is not complicated at all. All you need is a yesterday's bread and a few ingredients which you usually story in your fridge.
Ingredients
BREAD
8-10 yesterday's/ stale sliced bread
Butter
1/2 cup of any dried fruit.
5-6 whole eggs 50-60gr of sugar (1/2-3/4 cup)
vanilla essence,
nutmeg powder and cinnamon.
600 ml milk
SAUCE
5-6 egg yolks only
50gr of sugar (1/2 a cup)
any chosen liquor (bailey, rum, whisky, vodka)
500 ml milk
Preparation
Step 1
Cut off the bread crusts, cut into half (or any shape)Spread butter generously on one side ONLY, and arrange each of them in an oven dish that has been layered with butter.
Soak 1/2 cup of any dried fruit. Sprinkle on top of bread layer.
5-6 whole eggs whisk with 50-60gr of sugar (1/2-3/4 cup) and vanilla essence, nutmeg powder and cinnamon.
Step 2
Pour hot 600 ml of milk (or 500 ml milk and 100 ml cream) into the eggs' mixture gradually at the beginning while continue whisking it, otherwise it'll become scramble eggs.
When eggs and hot milk have mixed well, pour into the bread. Press down until bread soaked. Leave it for 10-15 minutes until bread soaked up thoroughly and
softened.
Step 3
Heat up the oven on 180 C degrees.
It's yummier to taste more like pudding than dry bread, so don't worry if bread
looks more like porridge than bread.
Bake for 30 mins in 180 C degrees until is risen and cooked but still wobbly.
Step 4
Spread marmalade/ jam of your choice to give more flavour and become shiny.
Put back into the oven for another 10 minutes.
Optional: dust with icing sugar and blowtorch for charred appearance.
Step 5
5-6 egg yolks only, whisk with 50gr of sugar (1/2 a cup) and any chosen liquor
(bailey, rum, whisky, vodka) and add hot milk 500 ml gradually.
Cook in low heat and gently stir ( do not leave the stove), until liquid is
thickened. (back of the spoon test)