Recipe - Banana Bread Pudding With Rum Sauce

BANANA BREAD PUDDING
1/3 cup Raisins or currants
2 tablespoon Butter; Plus Extra For Pan
3 Bananas; peeled, halved
Crosswise And Then
Lengthwise
5 Sugar
2 cup Whipping cream
4 lg Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
8 ounce Firm white bread slices;
crusts trimmed, Each Slice
Cut Into 3 Strips
One half cup Toasted Pecans (About 2
Ounces); Chopped

RUM SAUCE
One fourth cup Unsalted butter
One half cup Whipping cream
One half cup Packed dark brown sugar
1 pn Salt
2 tablespoon Dark rum

For rum sauce: Melt butter in heavy medium saucepan over mediumhigh heat.
Add cream, sugar, and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar
dissolves. Remove from heat. Stir in rum. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead.

Cover and refrigerate. Rewarm over low heat, stirring constantly.)

For Banana Bread Pudding: Combine raisins and 2 tablespoons rum in a small
bowl. Let stand 20 minutes. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a heavy skillet
over medium heat. Add banana and 2 tablespoons sugar and cook until bananas
are tender, about 2 minutes per side. Remove from heat. Combine whipping
cream, eggs, vanilla extract and remaining One fourth cup rum and 3 tablespoons
sugar in medium bowl and whisk to blend. Preheat oven to 350'F. Butter
9x5x3inch loaf pan. Arrange 1/3 of bread strips crosswise in bottom of
prepared pan. Arrange 6 banana pieces atop bread. Sprinkle with half of
raisins and half of pecans. Arrange 1/3 of bread strips crosswise atop
bananas. Pour half of egg mixture over.

Arrange remaining banana pieces atop bread. Sprinkle remaining pecans and
raisins. Arrange remaining bread strips crosswise atop bananas. Pour
remaining egg mixture over. Press gently on top layer to compact.

Let stand 15 minutes. Bake bread pudding until puffed and golden and a
knife inserted into the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Transfer
to rack and cool slightly. Cut bread pudding into slices. Arrange on
plates; drizzle with warm Rum Sauce and serve. 68 servings

Recipe by: Bon Appetite

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #975 by "Bob & Carole Walberg"
walbergr@mb.sympatico.ca on Dec 30, 1997