Bread and Butter Pudding: An Unacknowledged Australian Classic

29 September 2025

September 2025

I was looking through Australian Geographics’ The Classic Australian Cookbook looking for a recipe for Bread and Butter Pudding  and was dismayed to find no recipe for It. If Banana Bread gets a guernsey  then the B & B pudding should get one. It’s been around longer, is very accommodating of change,  and stirs fond memories for my age cohort. It got into the Country Women’s Association’s Cook Book. Seventy Years In The Kitchen. My mum, who was no great or even good cook, made it regularly.

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.