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The Best Bread Pudding
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Ingredients
- 2 cups milk.
- 1/4 cup butter.
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten.
- 1/2 cup sugar.
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon or nutmeg.
- 1/4 teaspoon salt.
- 6 cups soft bread cubes (about 6 slices bread)
- 1/2 cup raisins, if desired.
A traditional bread pudding sauce is made from just a few simple ingredients: milk, sugar, vanilla extract and cornstarch. Variations of vanilla bread pudding sauce includes rum sauce, bourbon sauce, caramel sauce and lemon sauce.
Vanilla, banana, and chocolate puddings are most common but thanks to pudding mixes, many flavors are available. This Southern boy's favorite is banana pudding, but all three mentioned above start with a vanilla custard base if making from scratch.
Bread pudding originated with 11th-century English cooks who repurposed leftover stale bread. In the following centuries, the dish became known as poor man's pudding because of the scarcity of food at the time, with the pudding being made only with boiling water, sugar, and spices.
' If you're wondering why it is called a pudding, it's because this dish includes a cereal base (the bread) and has a soft and spongy consistency after baking.