Bread Pudding With Variations Food

BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Whisk together eggs, whipping cream, milk, salt, sugar, and vanilla.
• Stir in bread cubes and raisins.
• Turn into greased 9x9 inch pan.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Bake 350 degrees F.
• for about 30 minutes.
• Serve with brown sugar sauce or lemon sauce.
• Brown Sugar Sauce: In saucepan, work together flour and butter.
• Add brown sugar.
• Stir.
• Gradually add boiling water.
• Stir until smooth.
• Boil until thick.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in vanilla, serve warm.
• Lemon Sauce: Combine sugar, starch, and salt.
• Gradually add boiling water.
• Stir until smooth.
• Cook over low heat until thick and clear.
• Remove from heat.
• Add remaining ingredients.
• Serve warm.

BREAD PUDDING II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Break bread into small pieces into an 8 inch square baking pan. Drizzle melted butter or margarine over bread. If desired, sprinkle with raisins.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. Beat 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 preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.

BREAD PUDDING WITH RAISINS

Steps:

• Tear bread into tiny pieces in a large bowl.
• Add the milk, eggs, vanilla, sugar, and raisins and mix well.
• Let the mixture sit for a little while, so the milk is absorbed.
• Grease your baking dish will all 3 tablespoons of the butter. You will have large pieces of butter in the pan, that is OK.
• Pour the pudding into the greased pan and bake at 350 deg. F. for one hour or until firm and brown on the edges.

HOMEMADE PUDDING WITH GOURMET VARIATIONS

Steps:

• Place a fine mesh sieve over a medium bowl and set aside.
• First, whisk together sugar, corn starch, and salt in a saucepan.
• Add milk gradually making sure to dissolve cornstarch. Add egg yolks and mix to combine.
• Turn on the element to medium heat and place saucepan on the element. Stirring constantly until the first large bubble forms and sputters, and then reduce heat to low. Continue to stir constantly for one minute and then remove from heat.
• Immediately pour the mixture through the sieve in the bowl to remove any lumps.
• Stir in butter and vanilla into the hot pudding.
• Place a layer of saran wrap over the surface of the pudding-this will prevent a skin from forming.
• Chill for 3 hours or for 3 days. Before serving whisk until smooth.
• For chocolate pudding: add cocoa powder with the sugar, corn starch, and salt and then proceed as directed.
• For Chai Cinnamon Pudding: brew the two tea bags in 3 tbsp boiling water, set aside until cool. Squeeze out the teabags and reserve liquid. Mix the tea into the pudding after step 8 and sprinkle cinnamon on top before serving.
• For Mocha Chip Pudding: Prepare pudding with chocolate variation. Then dissolve the espresso powder into 2 TBSP boiling water and cool. Mix the cooled espresso into the pudding after step 8 and sprinkle chocolate chips on top before serving.
• For Rum Raisin Pudding: Combine 1/4 cup raisins and 1/3 cup rum in a small pot and bring to a boil. Remove from element and let cool completely. Remove raisins from rum and set aside. Mix the rum into the pudding after step 8 and sprinkle the raisins on top before serving.

BOURBON BREAD PUDDING WITH VARIATIONS

Steps:

• Butter a 9x9 baking dish and put bread in it. Sprinkle with pecans.
• In a large bowl, whisk together half-and-half, milk, eggs, butter, brown sugar, bourbon, vanilla, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg.
• Pour the custard mixture over the bread and stir to coat evenly. Let the pudding sit for 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Put the dish in the oven and bake for 50 minutes, or until puffy and set. Remove from oven and let stand 10 minutes.
• Serve with fresh whipped cream.
• Variations: add one large chopped apple (try: Cameo, Cortland, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Jonagold, Jonathan, or Rome); one large sliced banana; or 1/2 cup golden raisins. I think blueberries might be good, too, but I haven't tried that yet.
• Note: If your bread is fresh, toast it for 8-10 minutes on a baking sheet before you begin.

BREAD PUDDING, WITH VARIATIONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Set aside an 8"x8" pan.
• Mix together bread cubes and raisins in a large bowl.
• Whisk milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, melted butter and cinnamon in another bowl. Pour over bread mixture and stir in, mashing bread cubes with back of spoon to encourage them to sop up milk mixture. Mash and mix until bread is nice and soggy. (The crust pieces will hold their shape, but the cubes from the center of the loaf should disintegrate into a soggy bread mass. If there is more than 1/2" of milk mixture pooled on the bottom, you have too much liquid: add about 1/2 cup more bread cubes. If some of the bread cubes are still dry, add a little more milk.)
• Pour mixture into pan and bake for 1 hour 30 minutes This is a good time to prepare your custard, make dinner, or ponder one of life's great mysteries. You may have to lay a sheet of foil over the top of the pudding in the last 30 minutes of cooking to keep it from browning too much.
• Once it's set in the center (i.e. no longer mushy, but firm), remove from oven and allow to cool about 30 minutes until just warm. Slice into 9 blocks and serve warm, preferably with vanilla custard.
• Variation 1: You can use any kind of bread you want, provided that it is a yeast bread, isn't sourdough, rye or pumpernickel, does not contain savory items (like rosemary. cheese or olives), and isn't overly salty. Other than that, use your imagination! Whole wheat breads are best when mixed with at least 1/3 white flour breads. This keeps the pudding from becoming too heavy. Mildly sweet breads, or those containing fruit or nuts, are also nice (think raisin bread or cinnamon bread.) Gluten-free bread can also be substituted with equally successful results.
• Variation 2: Add 1/2 cup chopped nuts (hazelnuts are particularly nice).
• Variation 3: Substitute any type of dried fruit for the raisins (cranberries, cherries, figs, currants, etc.)
• Variation 4: Honey Orange Apricot Bread Pudding: Reduce sugar to 1/3 cup and add 2 tablespoons honey, 1/4 cup orange juice and zest of 1 orange to milk mixture. Omit cinnamon. Substitute 3/4 cup chopped dried apricots (I prefer the darker, more tart Blenheim variety than the Turkish ones, but both will work.).
• Variation 5: Substitute 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips for the raisins. Serve drizzled with warm chocolate sauce.

OLD-FASHIONED BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In 2-quart saucepan, heat milk and butter over medium heat until butter is melted and milk is hot.
• In large bowl, mix eggs, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Stir in bread cubes and raisins. Stir in milk mixture. Pour into ungreased deep round pan.
• Bake uncovered 40 to 45 minutes or until knife inserted 1 inch from edge comes out clean. Serve warm with whipping cream.