Grape-Nut Pudding

Alan in SW Florida's Note:

A New England favorite! Served in many restaurants from Maine to Massachusetts. Many of my friends here in Florida had never heard of grapenut pudding until I made it. I had to give them all the recipe.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 1 cup Grape-nuts cereal
• ¾ cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 quart milk , scalded
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 dash salt
• ground nutmeg

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, pour scalded milk over the grape-nuts and let sit 5 minutes.
3. In a medium bowl, beat eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla. Add to the milk and grape-nuts, and stir a couple of times.
4. Pour into a greased 2-quart casserole dish. Sprinkle generously with ground nutmeg. Set the casserole dish in a larger pan and pour very hot water until halfway up the sides of the casserole dish. Bake for about 1 hour, or until a knife inserted 1 inch in the center comes out clean.
5. Serve warm or cold in individual dessert bowls with whipped cream.

Reviews

[SewandXit]

YUM!! I grew up in MA and have lived in ME for 23 years. There's nothing like a good New England desserts. We LOVED this recipe. I ate a good-sized serving right out of the baking dish not long after it came out of the oven. Then...I shared it. LOL As delicious as it was, the next time I make it, I'm going to cut the sugar back to 1/2 cup so I won't feel so bad if I eat the entire recipe. I used fat-free milk, because that's all I had in the house. I'm sure whole milk would be fabulous, but the skim did the trick.

[Chef #754772]

We had to have a New England dessert to go with our Boston baked beans and brown bread. This is the one we decided on, and it was eggsellent!!!

[Sica]

This is my favorite recipe. So yummy and easy! I'm going to substitute Sugar with Splenda so my mom can have some.