King of Puddings

King of Puddings / Jamie Oliver

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

·                                 4 fr ee-range eggs

·                                 565 ml milk

·                                 115 g fine breadcrumbs

·                                 225 g sugar, preferably vanilla sugar

·                                 4 level tablespoons jam , raspberry is really nice

Method

Preheat the oven to 150ºC/300ºF/gas 2. Separate 3 of the eggs. Put the yolks into a bowl with the remaining whole egg and beat together. Add the milk, breadcrumbs and 85g of the sugar. Put the jam on the bottom of a pie dish and spread it evenly. Pour the custardy egg and milk mixture over the jam. Bake in your preheated oven for 1 hour or until set.

Whisk the remaining 3 egg whites until stiff, then slowly add the remaining sugar until it is all mixed in. Pile it on top of the custard, then bake in the oven for a further 15–20 minutes until the meringue is set and lightly browned.

I haven't done the last part this time, but will do it again soon with the Meringue