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Old-fashioned Bread Butter Jam Pudding

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We all love puddings, right. I mean, who doesn’t? You’ll go nuts reading and then wondering about their variety, the diversity of recipes out there and the way they look and taste. It’s like, they have a happy little world of their own.
This old-fashioned BBJ pud is absolute bonkers. Super fun, easy-peasy and a total showstopper.
Here, the major part of excitement lies in leaving the sandwich overnight in its creamy, eggy bathtub and then baking it in the morning… until it rises and takes on those gorgeous sunny hues. Moment of truth! 🙂

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Refrigerating time: Overnight
Baking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:
8 slices of white or brown bread. Fresh or stale, crusts trimmed
Butter, enough to slather four slices and line the baking dish
Mixed fruit or apricot or strawberry…basically, any jam of your liking. And enough to smear on four slices of bread
4 Eggs
315 ml Milk,
125 ml Cream
125 gm Brown Sugar,
1/2 Cinnamon Powder
A pinch of Nutmeg Powder
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract

Method:
1. Make 4 sandwiches by spreading jam and butter on 4 slices each and cut them into quarters.
2. Arrange them in a baking dish and leave it aside.
3. Whisk together the eggs, milk, cream, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla and pour this gorgeous, creamy mixture over the quartered sandwiches.
4. Cover the dish with a cling film and refrigerate overnight.
5. In the morning, take the dish out from the fridge, an hour before baking.
6. Remove the cling film and bake in a preheated over at 160 degrees for 30 minutes or until you see the pud rising well and the crust is beauteously golden with specs of brown.
7. Serve warm with whipped cream, custard or ice-cream. I personally love it cold, without any sides for company. It’s lovely as it is!

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Banana Bread

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This is the best Banana Bread recipe ever. Period. It’s kind of a Grandma’s recipe… vintage and long-standing. Its old-school simplicity is overwhelming and so is its super-soft texture and mind-blowing flavor.
When I baked it for the first time, I did it with white sugar. The second time, I used the light brown one. With both, results were amazing. Believe me, you’ll never go wrong with it. Try once and you will be baking it again and again, I promise.
banana-breadPreparation time: 15 minutes
Baking time: 50 minutes to 1 hour

Ingredients:
4 medium sized, very ripe bananas
1/2 cup butter
1 cup Sugar (white or brown). Adjust according to your desired sweetness.
2 large eggs, slightly beaten
11/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Method:
1. Grease and flour a loaf tin. Preheat the oven to 180 C.
2. Squidge the bananas with a masher. I prefer doing it with hand and leave little chunks, instead of making a paste. You feel them in your bites when you chomp on.
3. Cream together the butter and sugar.
4. Add the beaten eggs and crushed bananas.
5. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Add to the creamed mixture.
6. Add vanilla, sprinkle the cinnamon powder and fold gently.
7. Tip the mixture in the loaf tin and bake for 50 mins or till done.
8. Enjoy as a tea-time cake or whenever you are in the mood for a dessert.

P.S.:
You can toss in a cup of chopped nuts, raisins, or chocolate chips if you want, or put the batter into muffin tins and make muffins instead.