Editing Bread pudding (section)

{{short description|Pudding made with stale bread}}
{{redirect|Wet Nelly|the ''James Bond'' submarine|Wet Nellie}}
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{{Infobox food
| name = Bread pudding
| image = Rew13c05-745a Bread Pudding.JPG
| caption =
| region = [[England]]
| type = [[Pudding]]
| served =
| main_ingredient = Usually [[stale bread]]; combination of [[milk]], [[Egg (food)|eggs]], [[suet]], [[sugar]] or [[syrup]], [[dried fruit]], and spices
| variations = Nelson cake, Wet Nelly
| calories =
| other =
}}
[[File:breadpudding.jpg|thumb|Austin Leslie's Creole bread pudding with vanilla whiskey sauce, from the late Pampy's Restaurant in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]]]
'''Bread pudding''' is a bread-based [[dessert]] popular in many countries' [[cuisine]]s. It is made with [[stale bread]] and [[milk]] or [[cream]], generally containing [[egg (food)|eggs]], a form of fat such as [[oil]], [[butter]] or [[suet]] and, depending on whether the pudding is [[sweet]] or [[savoury (dish)|savory]], a variety of other ingredients. Sweet bread puddings may use [[sugar]], [[syrup]], [[honey]], [[dried fruit]], and/or [[Nut (fruit)|nuts]], as well as spices such as [[cinnamon]], [[nutmeg]], [[mace (spice)|mace]], and/or [[vanilla]]. The bread is soaked in the liquids, mixed with the other ingredients, and baked. Some other names bread pudding goes by is "poor man's pudding", "bread and butter pudding" or just "pudding".

Savory puddings like [[Strata (food)|breakfast strata]] may be served as main courses, while sweet puddings are typically eaten as desserts.

In other languages, its name is a translation of "bread pudding" or even just "pudding", for example "pudín" or "budín".<ref name="CITEREFMenta2014" /><ref name="CITEREFGuerra2014" /> In the [[Philippines]], [[banana bread]] pudding is popular. In Mexico, there is a similar dish eaten during [[Lent]] called ''[[capirotada]]''.<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Villapol
 | first = Nitza
 |author2=Martha Martínez
 | title = Cocina al minuto
 | publisher = Roger A. Queralt – Artes Gráficas
 | year = 1956
 | location = La Habana, Cuba
 | page = 254
 }}</ref> In [[Liverpool]] in the United Kingdom, a moist version of Nelson [[cake]], itself a bread pudding, is nicknamed "Wet Nelly".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/speke-hall-garden-and-estate/recipes/wet-nelly|title=Wet Nelly|website=[[National Trust]]|access-date=27 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haRTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT407 |title = The Liverpool English Dictionary|isbn = 9781786946041|last1 = Crowley|first1 = Tony|date = April 2018| publisher=Liverpool University Press }}</ref>