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Marmalade bread and butter pudding
Ingredients
Serves 4-6
- 275ml/½ pt double cream
- 275ml/½ pt milk
- 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped
- 6 egg yolks
- 2 whole eggs
- 175g/7oz caster sugar
- 1 loaf brioche bread
- 100g/4oz unsalted butter
- 6tbsp marmalade
- 8 oranges
- 1 lemon, zested
- 25g/1oz pistachio nuts, roughly chopped
Method
- Heat the cream, milk, vanilla seeds and pod in a saucepan until simmering.
- Meanwhile, whisk the egg yolks, egg and 150g/5oz of the sugar together in a bowl.
- Pour the hot cream mixture over the eggs and whisk to combine then pour through a fine sieve into a jug.
- Spread the bread with the butter and marmalade then cut into triangles and layer into a medium sized ovenproof dish.
- Pour the custard mixture over the bread and set aside for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 170C/325F/Gas 3.
- Place the pudding into a high sided oven tray and fill the tray with warm water until it comes just half way up the pie dish. Place in the oven for 30-40 minutes until just set and lightly golden.
- While the pudding bakes, make the orange salad.
- Place the last 25g/1oz fo the sugar into a small saucepan with 25ml/1floz of water and bring to a simmer.
- Zest two of the oranges into the sugar syrup along with the lemon then cook until most of the sugar syrup has evaporated.
- Tip into a sieve to drain then tip out onto a chopping board. Add the pistachios and chop through until finely chopped.
- Peel and slice the oranges and divide between the serving plates. Spoon the bread and butter pudding onto the oranges then finish with a spoonful of orange and pistachio.