Bread Pudding

Ingredients

• 2 cups milk
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup sugar
• Pinch of salt
  
• 1/2 loaf of sweet egg bread cut into 2 inch cubes
• 2 eggs (beaten)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a small saucepan over low heat, add warm milk, butter, vanilla, sugar and salt.
2. Continue cooking just until butter melts; cool. Meanwhile, butter a 4-to-6-cup baking dish and fill it with cubed bread.
3. Add eggs to cooled milk mixture and whisk; pour mixture over bread. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until custard is set but still a little wobbly and edges of bread have browned.
4. Serve at room temperature.

Source — Times Cooking
Prepared by Laura Hurd
Louisiana Anthology
January 5, 2021