Bread and butter pudding 1

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
⅔ cup Raisins
¼ cup Rum, optional
12 ounces Day old organic white bread,
Cut into 1/2-inch cubes
3 tablespoons Unsalted butter, softened
3 cups Milk
1 Vanilla bean, split
Lengthwise
¾ cup Granulated sugar
3 larges Eggs
3 larges Egg yolks

Directions

Garnish:

Confectioners' sugar

In a small bowl, macerate raisins in rum 30 minutes. Drain the raisins.

Lightly butter a 2 quart baking dish. Spread the bread evenly in the baking dish and sprinkle the raisins on top. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a heavy saucepan bring milk to a bare simmer over moderate heat with vanilla bean and granulated sugar and remove pan from heat.

Scrape seeds from vanilla bean with a knife into milk, reserving pod for another use, and whisk to break up seeds. In a large heatproof bowl whisk together whole eggs and yolks and add hot milk in a slow stream, whisking.

Ladle custard evenly over bread and set dish in a larger baking pan.

Add enough hot water to pan to reach halfway up side of dish and bake pudding in middle of oven 25 to 30 minutes, or until puffed and set.

Remove dish form water bath and cool pudding to warm or room temperature. Just before serving dust pudding with confectioners' sugar.

Yield: 6 servings

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Recipe adapted from Gourmet Magazine

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