Bread and Butter Pudding Served with Clotted Cream and Compote of Apricots

Ingredients

• 9 oz. dried apricots
• 1⁄2 pod vanilla
• Zest of 1/2 orange
• 1⁄2 stick cinnamon
• 5 slices white bread (sliced thin), cut on a diagonal
• 2 1⁄2 oz. (5 tbsp.) butter, softened
• 3 1⁄2 oz. (2⁄3 cup) sultanas (golden raisins)
• 8 oz. (1 cup) cream
• 8 oz. (1 cup) milk
• 3 eggs
• 2 oz. (1⁄4 cup) sugar
• 1 pod vanilla
• 1 oz. (2 tbsp.) icing sugar (confectioners' sugar)
• 1 oz. (2 tbsp.) apricot jam
• 7 oz. clotted cream