Luxury Surprise Store-cupboard Pudding

This creation required planning and stock-control. Either spectacularly good or embarrassingly bad.

Post Christmas, the Panettone Breads, which are normally massively over-priced, are sold off at a stupidly low price. The crafty cook will buy a couple, and store them at the back of a cupboard, "pretending" to have forgotten about them. Luckily, they have a long shelf-life.

This pudding was made from one such panettone - without any real recipe, but generally following the classic "Bread Pudding" format.

First - Select your Panettone

Probably worth removing from it's interior bag

Cut into thick slices, spread with butter

Form a layer in an oven-proof dish

Personal choice, but I added some ~~out-of-date~~ matured mincemeat filling.

Add another layer, and mix up some eggs in milk, with a little sugar and some vanilla

Pour eggy-milk mixture over the panettone, and allow to soak.

Cook in an over at (suitable temperature) for (a suitable time)

Yes, it's as good as you might expect.

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