This recipe is proof-positive that leftover bread can easily be converted to dessert without much work. There’s room for customization here: Consider adding fresh or dried fruit or a combination of spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cardamom. Bread pudding makes a great brunch dish, served with fresh fruit compote. Or add a handful of chocolate chips before baking for a decidedly more decadent outcome.
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Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a small saucepan over low heat, warm milk, butter, vanilla, sugar and salt. Continue cooking just until butter melts; cool. Meanwhile, butter a 4-to-6-cup baking dish and fill it with the cubed bread.
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Step 2
Add eggs to cooled milk mixture and whisk; pour mixture over bread.
Step 3
Bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until custard is set but still a little wobbly and edges of bread have browned. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Wrap the baked pudding with plastic wrap, or tuck individual portions into an airtight container, then store in the refrigerator for up to three days.
Let the bread pudding cool completely. Leave the pudding in the baking dish or remove it, wrap it with plastic wrap, then again with aluminum foil and freeze for up to three months. Allow it to thaw in the refrigerator, then reheat in a 350-degree oven until warmed through. You can also reheat individual portions in the microwave in 30-second intervals.
Assemble the pudding in the baking dish, cover it with plastic wrap, then refrigerate for up to two days before baking according to instructions.
5-6 cups of bread require more than 2 cups of milk & 2 eggs.
You can't fit 5-6 cups of bread in a 4-6 cup baking dish. So,
* 5-6 cups bread
* 1 quart milk
* 4 eggs
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
... in a 2.5-quart casserole dish.
Louisanova
Make sure to let the bread soak in the egg-milk mixture; about an hour or more is perfect. Then it will become a beautiful custard.
Kim
I agree that letting the mixture soak for a while improves the result. Also doubling the eggs, 4 rather than 2, makes for a better custards pudding.
Lynn Thompson
Any suggestions on how to make this pudding with sourdough? I have some going stale that I’m not really inspired to use any other way.
Jeff
Easy and excellent. I used sourdough, and added an extra egg, cinnamon and chocolate chips.
DoughNYC
I used half a white loaf, 5 eggs (3 whole, two yolks), 2 1/2 cups of oat milk (all I have usually), eyed the brown sugar in my pour, and toasted what’s essentially my 5 spice powder in browned butter until fragrant. Then before baking I added macerated berries (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries), about a cup, on top. Let it sit overnight and made it the next day. Perfect.
