Thursday, 18 May 2006

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Dame Judi Dench's Bread & Butter Pudding

Star of stage and screen Dame Judi's pudding is delicious

Dame Judi Dench has a twinkle in her eye at The North Wall Theatre Charity Gala in Oxford.

'This is delicious and provides the perfect solution for what to do with those dry Italian cakes you get given at Christmas!'

Ingredients

Pannetone cake
15g/½oz candied lemon or 7g/¼oz orange peel, finely chopped
50g/2oz currants
275ml/½pt milk
75ml/5tbsp double cream
Grated rind of ½ a small lemon
50g/2oz caster sugar
3 eggs
Freshly grated nutmeg

Method

1 Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4.
2 Butter a 1ltr/1¾pt oblong enamel baking dish. Slice the cake and butter it. Put 1 layer on the base of the dish, sprinkle with the candied peel and half the currants. Put another layer of cake in the dish and sprinkle with the rest of the currants.
3 Put the milk and cream together in a measuring jug, stir in the lemon rind and sugar.
4 Whisk the eggs in a small basin and add the milk mixture. Pour the whole lot over the cake and sprinkle with freshly grated nutmeg. Bake in the oven for 30-40 mins. Serve warm.

Recipe taken from Cooking For Life compiled by Louise Robinson. For more information about this book, call 020-7793 4500 or visit www.wateraid.org.