Recipe - Bread Pudding With Grappa-Soaked Raisins

One half cup Raisins
One fourth cup Grappa, brandy or rum
6 lg Eggs
Three fourths cup Sugar
3 cup Milk
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
4 cup Stale bread cubes; One half inch

1. Place raisins and grappa in a small bowl. Soak at least 1 hour, or
overnight if desired. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Butter a shallow 2quart
ceramic baking dish. Place dish in a large, shallow roasting pan.

2. Whisk eggs and sugar together in a large bowl until smoth. Whisk in milk
and vanilla. Stir in bread cubes, along with raisins and grappa. Pour bread
mxture into baking dish. Place roasting pan and baking dish on oven rack.
Fill roasting pan with hot tap water so that the water reaches about
halfway up sides of baking dish.

3. Bake until pudding is set and knife inserted in center comes out clean,
50 to 60 minutes. Remove baking dish from roasting pan and cool on a rack.
Bread pudding may be served warm or chilled.

Source: Chicago Tribune, July 24, 1996.
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #169

Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 03:26:01 +0000

From: Linda Place placel@worldnet.att.net