Moms Thanksgiving Bread Pudding Recipes

Steps:

• Scatter bread on a rimmed baking sheet in a single layer. Place inside a cold oven with the light on for 8 hours to overnight. Remove from the oven.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch pan.
• Mix sugar, half-and-half, and eggs together in a large bowl. Mix in vanilla. Add bread cubes and let sit until liquid is absorbed, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in raisins. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Mix brown sugar and butter for topping together in a small bowl until crumbly. Sprinkle over the bread mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until set, 35 to 45 minutes.
• While the bread pudding is baking, prepare rum sauce: stir sugar, melted butter, egg, and vanilla together in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir until sugar melts. Add rum and stir until well combined.
• Remove bread pudding from the oven. Drizzle rum sauce over top and serve.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Scald milk with butter; set aside to cool.
• In a large bowl place torn bread pieces, sprinkle with as much cinnamon as you like. Sprinkle 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 tsp salt and 2 eggs (slightly beaten) over cinnamon sugar bread pieces. Mix gently.
• Pour cooled scalded milk and butter over the bread mixture and add any optional items before pouring into greased loaf pan. Mixture should fill the bread pan.
• Place the loaf pan in a large baking pan and fill with 1" of water (called a water bath).
• Bread pudding is done when a knife inserted in center comes out clean. Oven temps may vary and so would the baking time.
• Slice into 1" slices and serve warm. top with a dollop of the Hard Sauce(see below).
• May be warmed in microwave for leftovers.
• Hard Sauce recipe:.
• Beat butter until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar and then vanilla until all mixed.
• Spoon a dollop on a slice of warm bread pudding. Mmm--enjoy!

Steps:

• Grease 9x9 pan with butter and preheat oven to 350 f.
• Mix in a mixer or beat thoroughly : milk, cream, eggs, sugar, vanilla, salt to form thin custard.
• Add and mix by hand the remaining ingredients (cube or tear the bread first) into the liquid custard.
• (I always eyeball this part, mixing the wet and dry -- usually I add the dry ingredients to a bowl, then pour the liquid until it covers a little more than half with liquid- enough that if you press down, the top parts get moist but not wet.).
• Press lightly to encourage bread to absorb custard. Let sit in refrigerator for 1/2 hour to 6 hours, depending on how stale the bread is.
• Pour into lightly buttered/greased 9x9 pan.
• Bake in oven for 1/2 - 1 hour or until golden brown on top but of bread pudding consistency inside.