Use-it-up bread pudding part two

It's awesome! The house smells amazing. I'm looking forward to serving it up tomorrow with some tangerine cream sauce! (Yes, I have a bunch of tangerines to use up, but I've seen an authentic recipe that I already have all of the ingredients for!)

If you have any use-it-up recipes that have been a success, leave a comment below and tell us how it went :-)

Use-it-up bread pudding

It's 9.45pm and I've just made a use-it-up bread pudding. The loaf in the bread bin was going stale and I didn't want to waste it - particularly as the holidays are approaching and things are getting tight!

So here's what I used:

Half a loaf of wholewheat bread
2/3 cup of demerera sugar
the last of the vanilla extract that was in the bottle
an excessive sprinkling of nutmeg (I LOVE nutmeg)
2 cups of semi-skimmed milk (It's all we drink and I don't have any cream)
1.5 cups of raisins
1 cinnamon stick
1/4 cup of butter
3 eggs

Here's what i did:

Pre-heated oven to 350.

Warmed up milk and added butter and cinnamon stick. Left it to simmer for 2 mins.

Mixed vanilla, eggs, nutmeg and sugar together vigorously for at least a minute. Then slowly, after removing the cinnamon stick, I added the milk.

Cut bread into triangles (Like my nan used to) and placed strategically around a grease Pyrex dish, layering in some raisins along the way.

After my last layer of raisins, I poured the milk-custard concoction over the bread. It's now in the oven for 45 mins. . .

My Nan Brown would be horrified if she were reading this right now! Still, I shall update you on how it went when it finally comes out of the oven.