Old Fashioned Bread Pudding is a dessert popular in many countries throughout the world – from Europe, North and south America to Asia.
It is a genius way to use left-over bread. The bread is soaked in the milk and eggs mixture. Then other ingredients are added, like raisins and other dried fruit, spices (like vanilla, nutmeg and cinnamon) and liqueur (like rum, bourbon or whiskey). In the end it is all baked in the oven for about an hour.
Usually it is served with brandy butter sauce (hard sauce), rum sauce or custard sauce. Sometimes it can be served with whipped cream, vanilla ice cream or even maple syrup.

Old Fashioned Bread Pudding
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
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Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C) .
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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.
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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.
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Serve with brandy butter (hard sauce), rum sauce or custard sauce.
Thanks. This recipe appears quite similar to the one my Mom made back in the late 1930s and 1940s.
I am looking for a recipe for a fruit cake with a lot more cake than fruit! I remember seeing one years ago in a store, but have neve seen one since. Thanks Dena
This recipe does not say what size baking dish to use and how many servings it produces.
Anybody know? 🙂
Patricia, Innkeeper
Sweet Magnolia Inn
St. Marks, Florida
I used a 1.5 quart baking pan. Based on your serving size it could produce 8-10 servings.
I don’t know if you can get lard anymore and it’s not kosher.
Do you have you’re mum’s recipe?
lard is still available.
I don’t know if you can get lard anymore and it’s not kosher.
Do you have you’re mum’s recipe?
Sorry, I don’t have my mums recipe.