Bread and Butter Blackberry Pudding Recipe
This pudding is inspired by Peter Rabbit’s sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. In this story, the sisters enjoy a delicious supper of bread, milk, and blackberries.
Using these three ingredients we have concocted a delicious bread and butter blackberry pudding that we think these bunnies would approve of.
Serves: Four greedy bunnies or six good little bunnies.
REMEMBER: always ask permission from a grown-up before you start cooking
What you need:
Eight slices of bread
Butter for spreading
Blackberry Jam (we used Bramble Berry Jam.
One tin of blackberries or two cups of fresh blackberries
Two cups of milk
Two free-range eggs
Five tablespoons of sugar (approx)
Icing sugar to decorate (optional)
Cream or milk to serve (optional)
Baking dish (double-check it is heatproof it should say on the bottom)
How to make the pudding:
Spread butter and jam onto your bread slices.
Chop your slices into small triangles.
Lay triangles of bread along the bottom of your dish jam-side-up.
Scatter some blackberries onto your first layer and add a sprinkling of sugar if desired.
Arrange the rest of the bread on the top of your pudding making sure that the slices overlap a little.
How to make the topping:
To make the ‘custard’ whisk the eggs and two table spoons of sugar in a bowl.
Stir the milk into the egg mixture.
Pour your custard mix over the pudding making sure every inch is covered.
Add a scattering of blackberries and a sprinkling of sugar.
Cover and set aside in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
How to serve your pudding:
After a while in the fridge, the pudding should have soaked in a lot of the custard mixture. Now, it’s time to pop it in the oven for about 30- 40 minutes.
When the custard is set and the pudding is a golden brown on top, it is ready to eat.
Get Mrs. Rabbit or Mr. Bouncer to help you to take the pudding out of the oven. Then serve with a drizzle of fresh cream or milk and a few leftover blackberries.
“His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter! 'One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time.' But Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper” - From Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit