Serves 10
Recipe courtesy of Louisiana Kitchen & Culture
For the Pudding
For the Hard Sauce
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New Orleans Bread Pudding with Hard Sauce
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Pour milk over bread cubes and let soak thoroughly. Melt butter and cool slightly. Mix eggs, sugar, spices and optionals; pour over bread/milk mixture and squish with your hands. Add melted butter and mix again. Place into buttered 2-qt. Baking dish and bake 1 hour at 350˚F or until an inserted knife comes out clean.
Hint: melt the butter in the baking dish to eliminate a step.
Let cool slightly and serve hard sauce.
To a medium saucepan over medium heat add butter, sugar, and nutmeg. Cook until butter is melted. Blend in flour and cook until thoroughly mixed. Slowly wisk in cream, vanilla and rum. Cook until sauce is just about to boil but does not rise up.
Serve over Bread Pudding.