Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

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Cooking time: About 45 minutes
Prep time: About 45 minutes

Makes: 12 servings

    

Ingredients

• 1         loaf French bread
• 1         quart milk
• 3         eggs, beaten
• 2 cups    sugar
• 2 T.       vanilla
• 1 cup    raisins
• 2 T.       shortening

  Whiskey Sauce

• 1 cup      sugar
• 1/4 lb.      margarine, melted (or mild olive oil)
• 1          egg, beaten
• 2 oz.       Bourbon whiskey (or other liquor such as rum)

    

Directions

1. Tear bread into chunks and soak in milk. Mash with your hands to work milk into bread.

2. Add eggs, sugar, vanilla, and raisins. Stir well.

3. Coat bottom of 9x14" baking pan with shortening.

4. Add bread mixture and bake 40 minutes until firm in 350 deg. preheated oven.

5. Cool pudding, cut into 9 pieces, and place in dessert dishes.

6. Before serving, pour on sauce and broil 5 minutes.

Sauce

1. Cream sugar and egg until well mixed.

2. Add melted margarine and stir until sugar dissolves.

3. Cool and add liquor.

 

Classic New Orleans style recipe for bread pudding with whiskey sauce by Alzina Pierce.
Collected Feb. 3, 2000 from Bon Ton Cafe, 401 Magazine St., New Orleans.

 

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