Thursday, April 12, 2012

Bread puddings :Bread crumbs, bread cubes or bread slices.


Bread pudding is a bread-based dessert popular in many countries' cuisine, including that of Ireland, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Malta, Argentina, Louisiana Creole, and the southern United States. Bread puddings may be savory or sweet, served hot or cold, and 
simple or extremely complex.
The primary use of bread pudding is to use up stale bread. Bread pudding is widely considered to be a "comfort food."
There is no fixed recipe, but it is usually made using stale (usually left-over) bread, and some combination of ingredients like milk, egg, suet, sugar or syrup, dried fruit, and spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace or vanilla. The bread is soaked in the liquids, mixed with the other ingredients, and baked.
A Bread and butter pudding is made by layering slices of buttered bread scattered with raisins in an oven dish into
which an egg and milk or cream  mixture, commonly seasoned with nutmeg and sometimes vanilla or other spices, is poured.
It is then baked in an oven and served. 
Some people may serve it with custard or cream.
Bread Pudding is thought of as an old fashioned dessert that
had its humble beginnings in 13th century England. 
It was first known as a "poor man's pudding" as it was made from stale leftover bread that was just moistened in water, to which a little sugar, spices and other ingredients were added.
It is no longer a poor man's pudding. It is now a rich, creamy, decadent dessert that has made its way onto the dessert menus 
of many fine restaurants.
There are many variations like the Pineapple Bread Pudding, Pumpkin Bread Pudding, S'mores Bread Pudding, New Orleans Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce n Banana Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding to mention a few.
Bread puddings have remained popular throughout the ages.

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