Bread and Butter Custard

This is a favourite from my childhood when my mum cooked on an Aga stove. With a family of nine to feed my mother was a wizz at using up any stray bits of food.

INGREDIENTS

2 tablespoons sultanas

2 slices buttered bread

2 eggs

2 tablespoons sugar

2 1/2 cups milk

6 drops vanilla essence

Nutmeg

METHOD

1. Place sultanas in a buttered dish
2. Cut the bread into small squares
3. Place in dish
4. Beat egg and sugar together, add milk and essence, and beat well
5. Pour over bread
6. Sprinkle with nutmeg
7. Stand in baking dish half-full of cold water and cook in a slow oven (150 - 160 C). When cooked, a knife-blade inserted in the centre will come out clean.
8. Remove immediately from hot water and serve either hot or cold.

Note: Can also use fruit bread and omit sultanas.