Estonian bread pudding
Bread pudding is one of my childhood dishes, which my grandmother and mother used to make in a wood-fired oven. Golden brown and crispy on the outside, soft on the inside and filled with all sorts of goodies: curd, raisins, sometimes apples. It tasted wonderful both hot and cold and was usually served with milk, sometimes with jelly. This dish was made with slightly stale, drier bread, but I solved this by toasting the bread slices in a dry pan on both sides and spreading them with butter before assembling the bread tin.
I tried to recreate the old flavors from memory, added a few ingredients that were not used many years ago, and here is the result. If anyone wants to make something truly nostalgic, then bread tin is one of those dishes.

Preparation time: 30 minutes of assembly time, plus about 40 minutes of baking time.
Level: Easy
Quantity: 30 cm round baking tin
Ingredients:
1 loaf of sliced, good-quality white bread
400 g curd
100 ml whipping cream
150 g sugar
150 g raisins
100 g dried cranberries
100 g dried apricots, cut into small pieces
600 ml milk
3 eggs
3 tsp vanilla sugar
150 g room temperature butter

Preparation:
- Toast the bread slices on both sides in a dry pan until lightly browned and crispy.
- Lightly brush both sides of the bread slice with room temperature butter, cut the slices in half, and line the bottom of the baking tin with a single layer of bread slices.
- Mix the curd with 100 g sugar, 100 ml whipping cream, and 2 tsp vanilla sugar, and pour half of the curd mixture onto the bread slices.
- Sprinkle half of the chopped apricots, cranberries, and raisins over the curd.
- Place another layer of toasted and buttered bread slices on top of this layer, and add the curd and dried fruit.
- For the last layer, place the bread slices, overlapping them slightly at the edges.
- Mix the milk and eggs, add 50 g sugar and 1 tsp vanilla sugar. Beat until smooth and pour into the pudding so that the milk reaches the last layer of bread, but does not cover it. The last piece of bread needs to be crispy.
- Cover the last layer of bread with pieces of butter and place in the oven at 180 degrees C and bake for about 40 minutes until the milk-mince sauce has set and the bread has become nicely golden brown and crispy.
Serve the bread pudding with milk.
Ready!!






















