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Old Fashioned Bread Pudding
Author: Kitchen Nostalgia
Ingredients
  • 2 cups milk
  • 5 tablespoons butter
  • 6 cups cubed stale French bread
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup whiskey or rum
  • 1/2 cup raisins soaked in whiskey for 2 hours
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C) .
  2. Scald the milk, add the butter and pour hot liquid over the bread cubes. Soak about 5 minutes then add sugar, eggs, whiskey and spices. Add the raisins.
  3. Pour mixture into buttered baking dish. Set the dish in a pan of hot water and bake until knife inserted in the center comes out clean, or about one hour.
  4. Serve with brandy butter (hard sauce), rum sauce or custard sauce.