Homemade Vegan Bread & Butter Pudding

Bread and butter pudding is good old-fashioned ‘stodgy food’, made with day-old leftover bread and vegan butter, cooked in a custard. Yum!

But of course, these days we have plant-based options that are kind to animals, avoid factory-farming and palm oil, and are cholesterol-free. Still retaining traditions, but with compassion!

This vegan bread and butter pudding (The Veg Space) combines dried fruits in a custard, and brown crunchy demerara sugar.

Keep this dessert away from pets, due to bread, dried fruits and citrus. Bin citrus scraps, as acids may harm compost creatures. 

For tinned ingredients, rinse then remove lids (pop ring-pulls over holes). Then step on cans to ‘pinch’ inner rims together, to avoid wildlife getting trapped. 

Use a real bakery to only buy what you need. Or choose rolls in stores, rather than big loaves. If you do buy more than you need, you can freeze bread, just pop slices in the toaster straight from the freezer.

Never give leftover stale bread to garden birds or wildfowls. As well as being a choking hazard (same with pizza crusts and crackers), it can harm due to mould, salt or butter from sandwiches (that smear on feathers, affecting waterproofing and insulation). Birds need their own food in safe garden havens. 

This easy vegan bread butter pudding (Katy Beskow) is from her wonderful cookbook Five Ingredient Vegan. It uses ready-made custard to greatly simplfiy the recipe, and includes marmalade!