Ultimate Bread Pudding
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 3 1⁄2 cups whole milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 7 large eggs
- 5 large egg yolks
- 2 1⁄2 cups heavy cream
- 6 cups bread, cut into 1 inch cubes
directions
- Note: bread can be any non-savory firm textured bread.
- Avoid soft supermarket bread- makes pudding mushy and avoid rustic crusty loaves with open crumb- doesn't absorb and yields too firm a pudding.
- Whole wheat cinnamon raisin works well, but a brioche or challah work the best.
- Preheat oven to 350, butter a 13x9 baking dish.
- Whisk milk and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Meanwhile scrape vanilla bean into milk mixture and throw in pods.
- Heat to steaming, but not boiling.
- Discard vanilla pods.
- Whisk eggs and yolks in a large bowl, gradually add 2 cups of hot milk mixture, then pour egg mixture into the saucepan with the hot milk.
- Strain and whisk in cream.
- Spread bread cubes in prepared dish.
- Slowly pour custard over bread being sure to saturate all of the bread.
- Bake in the center of the oven for about 1 hour or until a small knife inserted in the center of the pudding comes out clean.
- Serve warm or chilled with whipped cream or caramel sauce.
- Note: you can add raisins, currents, dried cranberries, sour cherries or any other dried fruit you like.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
riffraff
Fort Worth, Texas
I'm an adventurous foodie. Cooking is how I express myself.