Which British dessert bakes slices of buttered bread with an egg-and-milk custard?

Bread and butter pudding is a British dessert that bakes slices of buttered bread with an egg-and-milk custard.

The pudding is assembled by layering buttered bread, often with raisins or other dried fruit, then pouring over a mixture of milk, eggs, and sugar. Baking sets the custard while leaving the bread soft inside and browned on top.

It developed as a practical way to use stale bread, making it part of Britain’s long tradition of economical puddings. Earlier recipes could be called whitepot or bread pudding, but modern bread and butter pudding is generally defined by the buttered bread and custard combination.

It is often flavoured with nutmeg, cinnamon, or vanilla and served warm with cream, custard, or sauce. Bread pudding is related but usually denser: it commonly mixes crumbled bread into a richer fruit mixture rather than arranging buttered slices in custard.