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A blog is usually in the form of a statement or a story but this blog is a plea for help.

When I was young my mother used to make something which we called "bread pudding". It was not a traditional bread pudding (where you use bread soaked in water).

The recipe used both dry[b]breadcrumbs[/b] and flour, dried fruit, I believe it also had eggs and milk possibly also golden syrup and either suet or butter in it and spices, cinnamon, ground cloves maybe?. When cooked its texture was slightly heavier than a light fruit cake and it was a golden colour inside. It was wonderful and we all loved it. My Dad used to take great slabs of it to work to have after his lunchtime sandwiches.

My mother has lost the recipe and cannot really remember it, not surprising after 45 years!!!! She remembers that it was an old wartime cake recipe and was in a little leaflet possibly issued by the ministry of food in UK in World War 2 for making use of bread that was past its best. I think that it might possibly have been a Marguerite Patten recipe but I'm not at all certain of that.

My question is does anyone know what I'm talking about, do you have the recipe? Or know where I can find it? I have done many websearches without success.

Please help, I can still taste this cake/pudden forty five years later. My mother used to bake it in the biggest meat tin that she had because we loved it so much. I can remember the incredible joy if we came in from school and could smell the "pudden" cooking in the oven.

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