Bread Pudding Made With French Bread Recipe

Bread Pudding Made With French Bread Recipe

Ingredients:

1/4 tsp of cinnamon
4 c of milk (hot)
A pinch of salt
1/2 tsp almond essence
4 tsps of vanilla essence
2/3 c of sugar plus 2 Tbsps
3 whole eggs
1/2 c of cherries (dried) or raisins
4 Tbsps of butter (room temperature)
8 ozs of French bread (stale & dense)

Instructions:

Slice French bread to half an inch thickness. Spread butter on one side for all the slices. Grease a shallow square ramekin. Arrange half of the number of slices of bread with the butter side facing up.

Layer cherries on top. Layer another row of slices of bread. Meanwhile, beat the eggs, half cup of sugar, almond then vanilla essences. Add salt and mix well.

Whisk the heated milk in. Decant the custard onto the square ramekin. Make sure to push down bread slices with spatula to soak up the liquid. Set it aside for half an hour.

Preset oven (350 degrees F). Place square ramekin inside a bigger baking pan with hot water poured inside bigger baking pan about half way up the smaller ramekin. Dust with cinnamon sugar on top of the custard and bake for fifty minutes.

Serve pudding warm topped with cool whipped cream.

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