BREAD PUDDING
I love bread! There, I said it. What I love most about it is how
simple it is. In fact, I came home from work this evening and was too exhausted
to wait for the soup to defrost so I had bread and cocoa.
So, I believe recipes including bread should be simple. Not as
easy as buttering your toast though, but simple all the same.
Bread pudding isn’t one of my favorite treats but this recipe is
here at someone’s request.
I believe the bread should be dry or stale to achieve the desired
texture and so sometimes I toast the bread in the oven to dry it out a bit.
What You’ll Need:
·
A
loaf of unsliced day-old bread, cut into chunks. This should give you about 4
cups of bread chunks.
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2
tablespoons butter or margarine, melted the fat gives it most of its
flavor so you want to use sweet smelling butter or margarine)
·
1/4
cup dried fruits or nuts or mixed (optional) some people just love fruits
and nuts. I don’t.
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2 large eggs or 3 small ones, beaten
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1 cup
milk. Whole cream milk with 3.5% fat. The kind that comes in juice
boxes. If you can’t find that, use a tin of evaporated milk.
·
2
tablespoons sugar. I prefer brown for its flavor.
·
1/2
teaspoon nutmeg
·
1
teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Get your ingredients
Put on your oven.
Arrange bread chunks in a 6 or 8 inch non-stick baking dish. (I use a Pyrex dish. It’s made of glass and oven safe).
Drizzle melted butter or margarine over bread. Sprinkle your fruits and nuts if desired.
In a separate bowl, beat eggs, milk, sugar, nutmeg, and vanilla until well mixed.
Pour over bread, and lightly push down with a fork until bread is covered and soaking up the egg mixture.
Bake in the middle rack of a preheated oven for about 30 minutes, or until the top springs back when pressed lightly.
Serve with whipped cream or plain. Serves four.
MY WHIPPED CREAM MIXTURE100g vizyon powdered whipped cream
½ cup full cream milk
½ cup whipping cream.
In a cold glass or stainless steel bowl, whisk the whipping cream until fluffy, (you can actually use it at this point but I prefer my mixture) add half of the milk, whisk. Add half of the vizyon powder, whisk in rest of the milk and rest of the powder.
Chill until ready to serve.
I hope you find this helpful.
Please try it out and let me know how it went.
