Thanks to Helen Truman for sharing this recipe with us!
A new take on an old favourite. When Helen picked up 4 large and slightly stale plain doughnuts, she decided to combine them with eggs and milk to make a delicious pudding. This is a great reminder to start with what you have and to use flexipes instead of recipes.
You could use any leftover or slightly stale bread type products – tea cakes, hot cross buns, raisin bread or brioche buns – they seem to always be in the reduced section lately. Croissants would also work, or how about cinnamon whirls? Mouth watering!
Helen didn’t add any sugar, but you might need to if you are using a less sweet bread product. You could also add dried fruit, nuts or even chocolate chips.
Image by Helen Truman
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 25 g melted butter or margarine
- 500 ml milk (dairy or plant), or use half milk and half cream (single or double)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- Cinnamon to taste – or try other spices like ginger or nutmeg
Method
- Grease an oven proof dish
- Tear up the doughnuts and arrange them over the bottom of the dish
- Mix the eggs, milk, melted butter, vanilla & cinnamon together
- Pour the liquid over the doughnuts and leave to stand for 15 minutes to soak in.
- Bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes
- Serve on its own or with ice-cream if you are feeling indulgent. Enjoy!
This is a great recipe to use up milk; one of the most wasted foods in the UK. Each UK household throws away an average of 18.5 pints per year¹. That would fill over 100 Olympic swimming pools². Dairy milk has a relatively high carbon footprint because of the resources used in its production – around 1.2kg CO2 per litre³. So the carbon footprint of the milk we waste is over 3 million tonnes of CO2 per year!
The good news is that many supermarkets have recently changed from ‘use by’ dates to ‘best before’ dates in an effort to reduce this wastage. You only need to give dairy milk a sniff to tell if it’s gone bad. Even then, you could use sour milk in cooking – tastingtable.com has some great ideas.
Sources
- Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Report, 2018
- Sustainable Food Trust
- Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Report, 2014
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Sounds delicious, and I hate waste too.
The method says to grease the dish, but the photo shows paper lining: I imagine this might be useful it the pudding comes out solid enough to slice like cake.
Just re wasted milk, I have bought almost only longlife milk for years, as it keeps forever unopened and a lot longer than fresh milk once opened.
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Great tip re avoiding waste milk Maurice.
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