Another post-festive pragmatic bake.

Sticking with yesterday's theme, I found a way to put to use the eight frozen crust-end bread slice I found in the freezer.

Post-festive bread and butter pudding - with cinnamon and cranberries

These flavours would also be good at actual Christmas time! (well it technically still is...)

I defrosted, buttered and quartered the bread, and arranged half of it in the oven dish, then poured over half the leftover dried cranberries.
I then layered on the rest of the bread and fruit.

For the pouring mixture:

300ml milk

150ml cream

2 large eggs, or three medium-sized

50g sugar

Beat the eggs first, then whisk in the rest.

I then poured this (diligently) over the bread and left it to soak in for quarter of an hour (while pre-heating the oven to Gas 4).

I then sprinkled ground nutmeg, a pinch or two of cinnamon (depending on your bravery) and three sachets of brown sugar (coffee-sized).I pressed in the cranberries so they didn't burn, and it was ready for the oven!