Italian Bread Dessert Food

GRANDMA'S BREAD PUDDING RECIPE

Steps:

• Grease a deep casserole dish with cooking spray and butter and preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add cubed bread.
• Melt the butter with milk in a small saucepan.
• Place all remaining ingredients into the milk then pour over bread cubes that have been placed into the greased casserole dish.
• Bake 50 to 60 minutes at 350-degree hot oven.
• In the meantime, place the pudding sauce ingredients into a small saucepan and cook until the mixture is boiling and thickens.
• Serve this dessert warm.
• Spoon the pudding sauce over the top of baked warm bread that has been added into individual serving bowls. Store any leftovers in the refrigerator.

ITALIAN BREAD PUDDING WITH VANILLA SAUCE

Steps:

• Pre-heat your oven to 325 degrees.
• In a small pot heat your milk and sugar until the milk gets hot and the sugar is dissolved.
• While your milk is heating, place your stale bread into a shallow dish. Now pour your hot milk mixture over this and let sit for 20 minutes.
• Now in a small bowl add your raisins and enough hot water to cover them and let those sit for 20 minutes.
• While your bread and raisins are soaking, butter 4 large ramekins (or 6 medium sized ramekins) and sprinkle with a little bit of sugar and spread it around so that it covers all of the butter. Set these aside.
• Once your bread is done soaking, pour it through a large sieve and with your hand gently press out some of the milk. Now place your bread into a large bowl.
• Drain your raisins and add those to your bowl. In a separate bowl, lightly whisk your egg and egg yolk and add that to your bowl and mix all of your ingredients together carefully as to not break up your bread too much.
• Now scoop out your bread mixture into your ramekins making sure they are all even and sit just below the rim.
• Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, increase your oven temperature to 350 and bake for another 10 minutes.
• While your bread pudding is baking you can make the sauce.
• Vanilla Condensed Milk Sauce:
• With a small saute pan over medium heat add your sweetened condensed milk, 1 tbsp of milk, vanilla and butter and mix until it is heated through and becomes silky.
• Turn off heat and leave on the stove.
• Once the bread pudding is ready, remove from the oven and lest rest for 5 minutes.
• After resting, drizzle liberally with the vanilla glaze. Enjoy!

ITALIAN BREAD DESSERT

Steps:

• Lightly grease a 5-cup deep casserole with the butter.
• Arrange the apple rings in the bottom of the dish.
• Sprinkle half of the sugar over the apples.
• Pour the wine over the apples.
• Add the bread slices, pushing them down with your hands to flatten them slightly.
• Mix the cream with the eggs, the remaining sugar, and the orange rind and pour the mixture over the bread.
• Set aside to soak for 30 minutes.
• Transfer the dessert to an oven preheated to 350* and bake for 25 minutes, until golden and set.
• Remove from the oven, set aside to cool slightly, and serve warm.
• Enjoy!

ITALIAN BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water. Add the sugar, shortening, salt, egg, remaining water and 4 cups flour; beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a stiff dough. , Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour., Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide in half. Shape each portion into a loaf. Place seam side down on greased baking sheets., With a sharp knife, make four shallow diagonal slashes across the top of each loaf. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour. , Bake at 350° for 37-42 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool. Brush with butter.