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Bread Pudding Recipe: Create Your Own - How-To
Ingredients
  • subheading: Choose your bread (you’ll need about 1 lb.):
  • French bread
  • White artisan-style bread
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  • subheading: Choose a custard flavoring (optional):
  • Almond: Add 1-½ tsp. almond extract to the strained custard.
  • Chocolate: Add 2 cups chopped bittersweet chocolate to the hot half-and-half. Whisk to melt.
  • Coffee: Add 2 tsp. instant espresso powder to the hot half-and-half. Whisk to dissolve.
  • Ginger: Add ½ cup finely chopped fresh ginger to the half-and-half before heating. After heating, let steep off the heat for 10 minutes before adding to the eggs.
  • Lemon: Add the finely grated zest of 3 lemons to the half-and-half before heating. Whisk the juice from 3 lemons (about ½ cup) into the strained custard.
  • Pumpkin: Whisk 1-¼ cups pure canned pumpkin, 1 tsp. ground cinnamon, and ¼ tsp. freshly grated nutmeg into the strained custard.
  • Rum: Increase the sugar by ¼ cup and add ⅓ cup dark rum to the strained custard.
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  • subheading: Choose one or two add-ins (optional):
  • bananas: 2, thinly sliced
  • toasted sweetened, shredded coconut: 1-½ cups
  • fresh or frozen berries: 3-½ cups (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, or a mix)
  • toasted coarsely chopped pecans: 1-½ cups
  • chopped bittersweet or semisweet chocolate: 1 cup
  • chopped dried apricots: 1 cup, soaked in very hot water for 30 minutes and drained thoroughly
  • golden raisins: 1 cup, soaked in very hot water for 30 minutes and drained thoroughly
  • ½ cup chopped crystallized ginger
Note: Ingredients may have been altered from the original.
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