Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe

A traditional South African pudding recipe to get you into the sweet swing of things

Bread and Butter Pudding is a traditional South African dessert, best served hot with golden syrup, jam or honey and a good dollop of fresh cream!

Bread and Butter Pudding
Courtesy Hope family recipes

• ½ litre milk
• 1 tablespoon margarine
• ½ loaf bread
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 eggs
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• optional sultanas | raisins
• 2 egg whites whipped stiff with 3 tablespoons sugar

How to make the best Bread & Butter Pudding in South Africa

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
• Warm the milk and margarine.
• Break ½ loaf of white bread into blocks.
• Add vanilla essence, egg yolks, eggs and sugar.
• Pour warm milk over mixture
• Beat well until like custard.
• Add optionals.
• Put into greased pan and
• Bake at 180 degrees for 45 minutes
• (in the mean time 2 egg whites whipped stiff with 3 tablespoons sugar)
• Take pudding from oven and allow to set 
• Spread with jam and cover with stiff egg whites.
• Brown in oven.

Serve warm with golden syrup, jam, honey, and/or cream.
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