bread and butter pudding including banana and chocolate versions (merged)

Here we go! Get about 10 slices of bread and lightly butter them with whatever you normally use. Make sandwiches out of them and cut them in nice triangles
I leave the crusts on. Now arrange them however you wish into your greased lasagne dish. Sprinkle over some sultanas and a teaspoon of nutmeg or mixed spice if you wish. Then add some granulated sweetener or sugar. I never measure it-just about 4 desrtspoons at a guess-same with the sultanas. If you use sultanas as well, it wll be sweeter. Now beat 3 eggs and add about 3/4 pint of milk together.Pour over the bread and let it all soak in for about 5 mins. Cook on gas 4 or 350f/180c for about 45 mins or until the "custard" is well set and the bread is golden.
I use semi-skimmed milk. skimmed would spoil it I think-too watery.

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Here we go! Get about 10 slices of bread and lightly butter them with whatever you normally use. Make sandwiches out of them and cut them in nice triangles
I leave the crusts on. Now arrange them however you wish into your greased lasagne dish. Sprinkle over some sultanas and a teaspoon of nutmeg or mixed spice if you wish. Then add some granulated sweetener or sugar. I never measure it-just about 4 desrtspoons at a guess-same with the sultanas. If you use sultanas as well, it wll be sweeter. Now beat 3 eggs and add about 3/4 pint of milk together.Pour over the bread and let it all soak in for about 5 mins. Cook on gas 4 or 350f/180c for about 45 mins or until the "custard" is well set and the bread is golden.
I use semi-skimmed milk. skimmed would spoil it I think-too watery.

this is virtually the same recipe as mine but ileave mine to soak for a bit longer. I agree that a lower fat one probably wont be as nice so just have a bit less of the nice fattening one .Enjoy!

My mum's recipe - for 4 people
Grease large ovenproof dish. Either 4 slices buttered bread + 2 oz. mixed dried fruit OR 4 slices bread spread with mincemeat - cut bread into triangles & layer in dish. Beat together 1 oz. sugar & 2 eggs, add 1 pint milk & pour over bread - should only half fill dish. Leave to soak for at least 1/2 hour. Bake at gas mark 4 for about an hour.
Enjoy - whichever recipe you use!

I don't bother now with spreading butter/margarine on the bread - I add a little olive oil/grapeseed oil into the milk/egg mixture and pour it over the bread, letting it soak for quite some time. It should work out to be lower fat?

hth