Bread and Butter Pudding vs Arme Ritter (Poor Knights' Pudding / German French Toast)

Both dishes turn stale bread, eggs, milk, sugar and butter into a warm dessert, but they head in different directions. Bread and Butter Pudding layers buttered bread with raisins, soaks it in a vanilla custard enriched with double cream and bakes it under a grating of nutmeg, giving a puffed, golden top over a soft, creamy, gently wobbling centre. Arme Ritter dips individual slices in a lighter egg-and-milk mixture sweetened with vanilla sugar, fries them in butter until golden and slightly crisp, then finishes them with a generous dusting of cinnamon sugar. In one, butter is spread on the bread; in the other, it is the frying fat.