Mom's Old Fashioned Bread Pudding
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
8-10 slices
- Serves:
- 8-10
ingredients
- 2 cups milk
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 4 cups white bread
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 5 tablespoons cinnamon
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optional items
- 1⁄2 cup seedless raisin (optional)
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Hard Sauce
- 1 cup butter, soft (not margarine)
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla or 1 teaspoon rum flavoring
directions
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Scald milk with butter; set aside to cool.
- In a large bowl place torn bread pieces, sprinkle with as much cinnamon as you like. Sprinkle 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 tsp salt and 2 eggs (slightly beaten) over cinnamon sugar bread pieces. Mix gently.
- Pour cooled scalded milk and butter over the bread mixture and add any optional items before pouring into greased loaf pan. Mixture should fill the bread pan.
- Place the loaf pan in a large baking pan and fill with 1" of water (called a water bath).
- Bread pudding is done when a knife inserted in center comes out clean. Oven temps may vary and so would the baking time.
- Slice into 1" slices and serve warm. top with a dollop of the Hard Sauce(see below).
- May be warmed in microwave for leftovers.
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Hard Sauce recipe:
- Beat butter until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar and then vanilla until all mixed.
- Spoon a dollop on a slice of warm bread pudding. Mmm--enjoy!
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