Bread pudding
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| Type | Pudding |
|---|---|
| Region or state | England |
| Main ingredients | Usually stale bread; combination of milk or water or cream, eggs, suet, sugar or syrup, dried fruit, and spices |
| Variations | Nelson cake, Wet Nelly |
Bread pudding is a dessert, that originated in Britain, that is made with stale bread and milk, cream or water. It generally also contains eggs, a form of fat such as oil, butter or suet and, depending on whether the pudding is sweet or savory, a variety of other ingredients. Sweet bread puddings may use sugar, syrup, honey, dried fruit, and nuts, as well as spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, and vanilla. The bread is soaked in the liquids, mixed with the other ingredients, and baked.
Savory puddings like breakfast strata may be served as main courses, while sweet puddings are typically eaten as desserts.
The dessert is also known as poor man's pudding or just pudding. In other languages, its name is a translation of bread pudding or pudding, including pudín and budín. In the Philippines, bread pudding made with Pandesal is popular. In Mexico, there is a similar dish eaten during Lent called capirotada. In Liverpool in the United Kingdom, a moist version of Nelson Squares, itself a bread pudding with shortcrust pastry, is nicknamed "Wet Nelly".