The bread pudding that we grew up knowing wasn’t created for the fun of it.Bread puddings were invented based on a need for people to make judicious use of their leftover bread.At a time when there was a scarcity of foods in the early 11th and 12th centuries in Europe, throwing away anything was a very bad idea. So, when they had dry stiff bread as a leftover, rather than toss it away, they added a couple of ingredients to it to make puddings.