Cajun Bread Pudding
Prep Time
1 hr
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
2 hrs
An Old Fashioned version of this classic dish.
Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 6 oz Bread mild (french or italian) dried or day-old, dried weight
- 3 each Eggs (xlrge or jumbo) for large add one yoke
- 1 cup Cream see notes below
- 2 cups Milk
- 1 t Vanilla extract
- 5 ozs Raisins approx 1 cup, golden?
- 4 ozs Rum or Brandy for soaking the raisins
Instructions
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Soak raisins in brandy for ~24 hrs., drain before use Preheat oven to 350 °F, use center rack.
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Cream eggs and sugar
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Add milk/cream, vanilla
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Add to 1 to 1½ qt baking dish, layering bread, raisins, and above mixture. Let soak for 10 to 15 minutes for the bread to absorb the liquid.
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Bake until center measures 177 – 180 °F, approx 1 hour. Top should be GB&D.
Recipe Notes
The bread is important. A plain Italian or French baguette is fine, not too much crust, absolutely no strong sourdough, rye, whole wheat, etc. The flavor of the custard is mild and can be ruined by a strong bread. Also, please not "white bread" such as Merita. It has no structure.
You can substitute from all milk to all cream. I recommend as in the recipe.
The soaking liquor for the raisins can be whatever you like.
Serve warm or room temperature.
See Bourbon Sauce Recipe to accompany.
Bourbon Sauce (for bread pudding)
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
45 mins
Course:
Dessert
Servings: 12 servings
Ingredients
- 4 ozs Butter unsalted one stick
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ cup Bourbon
- 3/8 cup Heavy cream
- 1 pinch Kosher Salt
Instructions
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n a small sauce pan, melt butter, add sugar, heat and stir until blended well, three minutes or so.
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Add cream and continue to heat until thickened a little, add salt and bourbon. Combine well.
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It will thicken as it cools. There may be some sugar crystals in the bottom. Try to leave them in the sauce pan as you transfer it to a serving container.
Recipe Notes
This goes especially well with bread pudding. You could imagine other uses too. Can you spell Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream?