Ciaran’s Omnipurpose Blog

I cooked this on New Year’s Day for my Mum and Dad. It’s been a signature pudding of my Dad’s for quite some time, so it was nice to return the favour and it topped off a fantastic roast joint of beef rib with all the trimmings beautifully!

Ingredients

• 100-175g softened butter
• 10-12 slices thick sliced white bread
• A jar of thick cut marmalade
• Juice and rind of 2 large oranges
• Juice and rind of 1 lemon
• Vanilla Custard – make your own from your favourite recipe or get the best ready made stuff you can.

Method

• Preheat oven to 200C
• Grease a shallow baking dish with butter
• Cut the crusts off the bread
• Spread the slices with butter and marmalade and cut into triangles (this is the messy bit)
• Combine the juice and rinds of the oranges and lemon.
• Line the bottom and sides of the baking dish with the bread slices. Dip them in the juice/ rind as you do so. Arrange them butter side up.
• Fill the dish with the remaining bread triangles, keeping a few in reserve to decorate the top.
• Fill the dish with custard.
• Decorate the top with the remaining bread triangles.
• Bake for 30 mins or until crisp and golden on the outside. The centre should still be nice and creamy.