I also make a bread pudding, totally different to the ones posted.
Bread pudding to a Londoner is more like a fruit cake, though
heavier. Although made with bread, eggs etc it has lots of fruit and
spice in it.
The ones posted are known as bread and butter pudding, usually made
with buttered bread, with a tad of marmalade, sugar, currants, and
eggs and milk are mixed and poured over all, plus a good shake of
nutmeg, it is then left to rest a while then baked in a water bath.
The egg and milk mixture cook to a delicious custard.. yum.......qahtan