Bread and Butter Pudding

This is a Sanjeev Kapoor recipe


Ingredients
Pear, cubed     1
Mango, cubed     1
Bread     6 slices
Butter     3 tablespoons
Raisins     1/4 cup
Milk     2 cups
Sugar     1/2 cup
Eggs     4
Vanilla essence     1 teaspoon

Method
Preheat oven to 180 °C/350 °F. Butter the bread slices and cut them in triangles. Put the pear and mango cubes in a baking dish. Spread the bread triangles over the fruits so that they are fully covered. Sprinkle raisins. Heat milk in a pan. Add sugar to the milk and stir till it dissolves but do not let it boil. Break eggs into a bowl and whip. Add the hot milk to the eggs and whip continuously till well mixed. Add vanilla essence and mix. Pour this mixture over the bread and fruits in the baking dish through a sieve. Bake in the preheated oven for forty minutes. Serve hot or cold.