For years I have sought the perfect bread pudding recipe. Not too sweet, not too dry and a sauce to drizzle over. Found it and I shall share it, cause it's good, you should try it.
Bread Pudding
8 cups of stale bread, 1" cubes
1 cup whipping cream
3 eggs
2 T. vanilla or 2 whole beans scraped
1 1/2 c. sugar
1/4 t. allspice
1 t. cinnamon
1 cup dried blueberries -
soaked in 1/2 c. bourbon
Bourbon Sauce
1/2 c. butter, melted
1 c. sugar
1 egg
(Add at the end) -
1 cup bourbon whiskey
Here's what you do. First butter 8 ramekins or a 9 x 13 inch glass dish. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Make the wet mixture first. I start with the eggs, then the seasonings, mix that all up. Then add the milk and then the sugar. Throw in the blueberries and the booze and lastly the bread. Gently toss or you'll have mushy, falling apart bread pieces (yuck). Spoon into ramekins and bake 40 minutes.
While that's baking, stir the melted butter and sugar together. Then add the egg and stir really well. Slowly heat, stirring all the time (or you'll get a scrambled egg). This mixture needs to heat to boiling to thicken. Take off the heat, throw in the whiskey and call it amazing topping! Yum!
Cover the cooled uneaten ramekins and keep in fring. You can nuke them about 1.5 minutes, then add some sauce, nuke another 30 seconds and enjoy.
What to do with eggshells? Somewhere I read that a person should bake them before throwing them on the compost heap. However, I can find no such info now.
Next project is to work on the compost pile. Thinking about some raised beds here at our little cabin.
Isn't he a handsome cat? Jynx out looking for a rodent to slay (and later throw up on the floor!). Ya gotta love that!!
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