Help! Creative food ideas - any suggestions?

[thewoodlandfairy]

We are cooking with friends, a course each on Thursday, my course has to have a £5 maximum and should serve 4. It is a pudding and has to have a Welsh theme (which may be only a loose connection) Any ideas, please?

Pwdin Mynwy (Monmouth Pudding)
1 hour 20 min prep

6 ounces breadcrumbs (12 tbsp.)
4 pints milk
2 tablespoons sugar
1 lemon
2 tablespoons butter
5 tablespoons raspberry jam
3 egg yolks

Grate the rind of the lemon.

Add the lemon rind, sugar and butter to the milk and bring to the boil.

Pour over the breadcrumbs and leave to stand for 15 minutes.

Separate the egg whites and yolks.

Found this for you...not ever made it but it looks yummy and easy and well inside your £5 budget. Let me know if you try it!!
xxK

Stir the yolks into the cool bread mixture.

Melt the jam.

Pour half of the pudding mixture into a greased ovenproof dish.

Spread with half the jam.

Add the remainder of the pudding mixture and then the rest of the jam.

Bake in a warm oven (325/F. or Mark 3) for 40-45 minutes,.

Not sure what happened to my last bit of the message but it stuck itself in the middle of the recipe!!! Perhaps it couldn't resist it!!
xx

Pwdin Mynwy (Monmouth Pudding)

Presented for educational purposes from:
Celtic Cookbook, Helen Smith Twiddy,
Y Lolfa, 1979, ISBN: 0-904864-50-2

½ lb. white breadcrumbs
4 small eggs
4 tablespoons sugar (flavored with 4 drops of vanilla essence)
1/4 scant cup of hot milk
½ lb. strawberry jam
3 tablespoons melted butter
½ lb. chopped dried fruit
a little sherry

Pour the milk and (half the) sugar over the breadcrumbs. Leave to absorb the milk. Separate the yolks and whites of eggs. Whisk whites with half the sugar. Pour half the breadcrumb mixture into pudding dish - spread the base of the dish with the sherry-soaked dried fruit (soak overnight for best results). Spread the jam over the breadcrumbs and finish off with the final amount of breadcrumb mixture.

Bake in a slow oven for 30 minutes or till set. Bring out and pour over whisked whites of eggs. Bake in very hot oven for 5 minutes until meringue is browned.

Another version for you! Enjoy and have a good night xxx

mrs poppins
thanks i like the idea but do you really mean 4 pints of milk? It sounds like rather a lot!

mmmmm...as I said, I found the recipe for you, cut it and pasted it from a welsh pudding site!!! Yes, they do exist. Isn't the internet a marvel!! Haven't actually tried it but agree that it seems way to much. The other uses a 1/4...perhaps in that recipe it was a typo?

Perhaps make it using a 1/4 first as a trial. It won't cost a fortune.

Enjoy tonight..love Karen xx