Cookbook Challenge – Week 8: Sweet
I’ve jumped on the Cookbook Challenge bandwagon, in an effort to diversify my cooking repertoire, but also partly to force myself to actually use the various cookbooks I have in my collection. I’m usually one who goes to cookbooks for inspiration, as opposed to following recipes. Unfortunately, old habits die hard – this week’s effort was in part improvisation, due in part to a lack of foresight, and in part to the fact I was cooking in someone else’s kitchen!
The theme this week was ‘Sweet’ – which pretty much says ‘Dessert’ to me – so I thought I’d go with an old favourite; Bread and Butter Pudding. I went with Jamie Oliver’s recipe.
Though I did make a few adaptations: I used Burgen Oatbran and Honey bread, I omitted the nutmeg and cinnamon (as they weren’t available to me), I used home-made apricot jam (from @tammois) instead of marmalade to glaze the pudding, and I fudged the quantities a bit to make a 2/3-ish sized one. I was supposed to look like this:
It turned out like this:
Not to shabby, I think! Hearty approvals all around from the tasters, and I discovered a new favourite vanilla ice cream in the process – try the Weis Vanilla Bean. It’s even got the black specks of vanilla in it! Nom.
Comments (6)
Welcome to the Cookbook Challenge! Hope it encourages you to use your cookbooks more!
Great first recipe – it looks just like the photo! I have that book too, but have yet to get around to using it. Oh well, there are still 44 weeks to go!
Brilliant work. And it's a win with home-made apricot jam. Yummo!
Great work, that looks delicious! I bet that bread made a tasty difference too.
Bread and butter pudding with ice cream? Yum!
What was it like using the honey and oatbran bread? Did the original recipe call for white bread? If it did, I think that's why I've never made bread and butter pudding – I never buy white bread!
Didn't even know there was a cookbook challenge as such, but one of my new year resolutions was to cook a meal a week, every week this year. So far I'm sticking to it!
Bread and butter pudding is an old fave
Conor & Agnes – yep, the bread made a big difference! So much more texture. Though to be honest, the only other time I've ever made B&B pudding, I used brioche, so I'm not sure what the regular one tastes like…