Recipe of Bill's Basic Bread Pudding - Food Recipes

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Title: Bill's Basic Bread Pudding
Categories : Dessert, Pudding, Bread, Milk, Egg
Serving size: 6 Servings 3 ea Slices stale bread 1 c Sugar 1/4 ts Nutmeg 1/4 ts Salt 2 1/2 c Milk 2 tb Butter 3 Eggs 1 ts Vanilla It is best to use a Hearty Bread for this recipe. Breads such as "Wonder Bread" do not work as well. Cut bread into cubes, or roughly tear apart into chunks. Put Bread into bowl. In a blender, or by hand, mix Eggs, Milk, Sugar, Salt, Vanilla and Nutmeg. Pour over bread cubes and let soak at least one hour, or covered overnight in the refrigerator Pour all into a 3 quart liberally buttered oven proof casserole dish. (If any butter is left after buttering the casserole, place it in the bottom of the casserole before pouring in remaining ingredients. Place casserole in a pan of very hot water to come about 2/3 way up the casserole dish. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 325 degrees until done, about 30-40 minutes. Pudding will raise like a Souffle, then collapse when removed from the oven. Serve warm or cold with or without your favorite "sauce" or Whipped Cream. NOTE: There should be enough bread to fill the casserole dish 2/3 full. The Milk/Egg mixture should come to about 1 inch above the bread mixture in the dish. This recipe is basically a loose custard with bread in it. Some recipes call for much more bread with the resulting pudding having the consistency of Meatloaf which can then be "sliced". This is a very Basic recipe. In my database there are currently over 175 recipes alone for Pudding containing Bread. Here are some alternate suggestions I have tried: 1 - Butter the slices of Bread before breaking into pieces. 2 - Cover the slices of Bread with Three Fruit Marmalade before breaking into pieces. 3 - Add the Zest of one Lemon, diced very finely 4 - Soak Raisins in Grand Marnier and add to Bread and mix before covering with Milk/Egg mixture. 5 - Sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon over bread and mix before covering with Milk/Egg mixture. 6 - Use Cinnamon Raisin Bread 7 - Substitue Half & Half for Milk 8 - Do all of the above. Don't be afraid to be creative. Enjoix !! Entered for you by: Bill Webster June 12, 1997 -----