How to make orange and ginger brioche bread and butter pudding with rhubarb

This humble dish doesn’t pretend to be anything it’s not, but here Julia Platt Leonard modernises it with ginger and orange

(Photos by Julia Platt Leonard)

Think comfort food and you may well think of bread and butter pudding.

It’s an honest dish that doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a wonderful sum of its parts: bread, butter, cream and eggs.

Once you’ve got the basics, you have a clean canvas on which to improvise.