Dona’s Old Fashioned Bread Pudding

It’s a bread-based dessert, a great way to use up extra bread (I used a combination of Oatmeal Bread & a no-knead artisan bread. Paired with a main dish salad, it’s a great way to balance a light meal with a filling dessert. Full of dried fruit and nuts, it is not overly sweet; a comfort-food dessert! 

I cut it in half and it 

Dona Myers shared this easy-to-make old-fashioned recipe that utilizes everyday ingredients. It is presented in the style she shared.

 

Dona’s Old Fashioned Bread Pudding   6 to 8 servings
Heat to scalding....................2 cups milk
Pour over..............................4 cups coarse bread, cubed 
Cool and add.........................1/4 cup melted butter (I just added butter directly to milk)
                                              1/2 cup sugar (granulated or brown)
                                              2 eggs, slightly beaten
                                              1/4 tsp. salt
                                              1/2 cup raisins

                                              1/2 cup chopped pecans, optional 
                                              1 tsp. ground cinnamon or nutmeg

                                              1 tsp. vanilla (this was also my addition)

1.   Pour all ingredients into buttered 1/1/2 qt, casserole (7 1/2").  

2.   Bake in a preheated 350° oven until a knife inserted in pudding comes out clean.  

3.   Serve warm with or without cream or ice cream or hard sauce. We served it with honeyed  yogurt.

Butter and spices added to scalded milk as it is allowed to cool. 

Egg mixed into cool milk, butter and spice mixture.

Custard poured over bread, raisins and pecans.