Intentional living and baking 2025

weenancyinAmerica

My sister collects the Dalarna horses also. She has pillows and blankets and tea towels as well as other things with them on also. That is the area of Sweden 1/4 of our ancestors came from.

Wednesday2000

I am trying to do lots of classes this year and I thought about doing a bread making class. They are so expensive! All the ones near me were booked up for months too. My online friend in the US sent me a bread recipe so I will try that one day next week.

Crazy Easy 4 Ingredient Artisan Bread - It's Always Autumn

purpleivy

Think of it as an investment @Wednesday2000!   Have you seen Youtube Bake With Jack? He has an awful lot of instructional videos, including the whys and wherefores. 

Working_Mum

Brie said:

Not really baking and certainly not on the level of the experts here but I've got a small baguette (Lidl) that is not going to be used so wondered about making what I call bread pudding (the one you serve hot, with cream or...).  It should be enough to make a small portion for us both for dinner but my big problem is that I can't imagine making it without pineapple in it (blame my mom) and I can't justify opening a tin of pineapple and use a fraction of what's in there.  I won't use raisins, currants, sultanas.  I could pop in some blueberries I suppose.  Or maybe some apple.  And I'd need to buy some eggs.....     

It's first world problems like these that stop me dead in my tracks some days!!!

I've never heard of bread pudding with pineapple Brie! I always associate it with a custard/ cream poured over buttered slices of bread (or panettone!).

What did you do in the end? In various frugal times I have made them with and without fruit and with varying qualities of custard (tinned and out of date through to freshly made!). 

Whatever you made I hope it was delicious :-:blush:

((WM))

purpleivy

I make bread and butter pudding with slices of bread, a bit of fruit and egg custard on to bake. 

I also make bread pudding which is a cake with fruit in cut into squares.  Grandson loves it and we make it together

WickedLady4

purpleivy said:

WickedLady4 said:

I tend not to eat bread but yesterday I made the Nigel Slater spiced ginger cake, which is delicious. I cooked it in two 8" square tins so have one to give to a friend tomorrow.

On my list to make as I have a load of ginger to use up.  Was it good? 

Definitely yummy, plus it gets stickier each day. I add sultanas, which always sink to the bottom.

Wednesday2000

purpleivy said:

Have you seen Youtube Bake With Jack? He has an awful lot of instructional videos, including the whys and wherefores. 

No, I will look him up.

Eek, the yoga centre is near a highly rated local bakery and I ended up buying a loaf on the way home as I was thinking about bread all day! It was delicious, but expensive. I should learn to make it instead.

mandy47

purpleivy said:

I make bread and butter pudding with slices of bread, a bit of fruit and egg custard on to bake. 

I also make bread pudding which is a cake with fruit in cut into squares.  Grandson loves it and we make it together

When we were kids we called this cabinet pudding and diplomat pudding if served cold.

Rosa_Damascena

mandy47 said:

purpleivy said:

I make bread and butter pudding with slices of bread, a bit of fruit and egg custard on to bake. 

I also make bread pudding which is a cake with fruit in cut into squares.  Grandson loves it and we make it together

When we were kids we called this cabinet pudding and diplomat pudding if served cold.

Which one? Eta: looks like neither, they are made from old sponge pudding rather than bread.

Stale bakery bread makes lovely croutons btw,

Brie

I'm sorry to say I didn't make any bread pudding in the end.  There were no eggs thus no pudding.  

But for those of you who might want to try this - this is what my mom's recipe book had.  I do believe thought that the pineapple was mixed about under some bits of bread.  And being my mom it was always very white bread, nothing fancy. 

fyi -  And to make it even more lush a portion was served hot in a bowl with a scoop of ice cream on it and maple syrup poured over top.  So no calories then....

Bread Pudding 

Butter 4 – 6 slices of bread and lay in baking dish

Mix:

2 eggs

3 tbsp white sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup milk  (250 ml)

1 tsp salt

½ cup raisins or tin of drained crushed pineapple

Pour over bread and let sit for 3 hours

Place in a cold oven, sitting the baking dish in a pan of water.

Bake at 300f 140c for 1 hour or until it’s well set and golden brown on top.