{"id":1475,"date":"2011-07-03T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2011-07-14T14:11:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T06:11:40","slug":"recipe-bread-nutella-pudding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/recipe-bread-nutella-pudding\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe: Bread & Nutella Pudding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me begin with a simple teatime treat that I religiously prepare every month – for the simple reason that there’s always bread leftover that’s near expiry and there aren’t that many stray birds to feed em to. The traditional Bread & Butter Pudding is an inexpensive excuse of creating an indulgent treat in less time than it takes to get dressed to head to the nearby cafe. <\/span><\/p>\n

The recipe dates back to the Elizabethan era and was, in its previous life, called the Devonshire White Pot. It’s quite interesting to note that back then, recipes were written in paragraphs, with the ingredients and method included in the text – as shown in Hannah Woolley’s (1622 – 1675) book<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Take two quarts of new Milk, a peny white Loaf sliced very thin, <\/span><\/em><\/strong>then make the Milk scalding hot, then put to it the Bread, <\/span><\/em><\/strong>and break it, and strain it through a Cullender, <\/span><\/em><\/strong>then put in four Eggs, a little Spice, Sugar, Raisins, and Currants, <\/span><\/em><\/strong>and a little Salt, and so bake it, but not too much, for then it will whey.”<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I could never imagine how tough it would be, to decipher recipes if we had carried on in the same stanza-writing method. We’d probably be eating out more often, that’s for sure.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>According to John Nott’s recipe <\/a>in 1723, on the other hand, White Pot also called for bone-marrow in place of butter, or even to complement the butter in the recipe. <\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, there’s something so comforting yet divine about Bread & Butter Puddings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well no, I will be using neither butter nor bone marrow for this recipe. <\/span>I’m opting for a crowd-pleaser:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Can never go wrong with Nutella – spread it on bread slices or on plain crackers or even in cup\/cakes or even on its own (mm guilty pleasures<\/em>!). Seriously, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t<\/em> love Nutella. Mother of all bread spreads, this cocoa & hazelnut spread is definitely a winner<\/strong> for everyone in my family. Explains why it needs replenishing so often<\/em>!<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a little (unrelated) baking tip: to make good chocolate chip cookies, do include ground or chopped hazelnuts, because it gives a heavenly Nutella aftertaste. Try it!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do we need for a decadent bowl of Bread & Nutella Pudding?<\/h2>\n

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