NAN’S BREAD PUDDING
SERVES 6. PREP 15 MINS. COOK 20 MINS
INGREDIENTS
• 8 slices bread day-old
• 8 tbs strawberry jam
• 5 eggs
• 400ml milk
• ⅓ cup caster sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• ¼ cup desiccated coconut
• 1 tbs brown sugar
• Cream or vanilla ice cream, to serve
METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 180C. Spread bread with jam and slice in half to form triangles. Arrange randomly in a deep baking dish.
2. Mix eggs, milk, caster sugar and vanilla essence together and pour over the bread. Sprinkle coconut and brown sugar over the top.
3. Bake for 20 minutes.
4. Serve pudding hot with thick cream or vanilla ice cream.
NOTES: The bread will rise in the oven – this is normal and it will go down as it cools. Any jam will do for this pudding, and orange marmalade is also nice.
A VENTURE capital group backed by the wealthy Darling and Wilson families and the principals of the $10bn Caledonia Investments is launching its first public fund to invest in the next generation of American softwear start-up companies.
Darling Ventures, a venture firm based in San Francisco and founded by Darling family scion Daniel Darling in 2013, is raising $30m from family offices and high net worth investors to invest in first-stage funding rounds being made by US tech start-ups.
The advisory board for the new fund, known as DV3, boasts Cristina Morgan, the vice chair of investment banking at JPMorgan in San Francisco, who has represented her firm on more than 100 IPOs for firms including Adobe, Google, Pixar and Netscape.
Also on the advisory board are Mr Darling, Caledonia chair Mark Nelson and Andrew Wilson, who runs his father Bruce Wilson’s family office, known as Wolf Capital, and is a director of listed bathroom products and plumbing giant Reece.
Darling Ventures has already launched two small pilot funds.