How To: Make a berry pudding (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries)

Berries, berries, berries! That's what you get in the summertime satisfying fruit dessert. It's a fresh berry pudding, full of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. It's unbelievably tasty.

Home-cooking is alive and well in a luscious pudding made by the author of "The Chef's Companion: A Concise Dictionary of Culinary Terms". Berries are excellent antioxidants but the bonus is they're delicious and their juices become the icing on the pudding, so to speak, Both rustic and elegant, this is truly dessert nirvana.

Makes 8 Servings

INGREDIENTS:

* 2 cups strawberries, hulled and halved or quartered
* 2 cups blueberries
* 3 cups raspberries
* 1 cup blackberries
* ¾ cup sugar, or to taste
* ½ loaf stale firm-textured white bread, thinly sliced and crusts trimmed

Special Equipment

* plastic wrap
* pudding mold
* sieve or strainer