Currabinny Cooks: How to make the best bread and butter pudding

Plus delicious ways to use up stale bread

This simple dessert is a hit at any dinner party. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan

Fresh bread is a staple of most households.

I have been thinking about the seemingly unlimited types of bread in all their shapes, sizes, flavours and forms: challahs, bagels, tortillas, arepas, soda bread, chapati, sourdough, rye, rice bread, injera, bao, blaa and barmbrack.