Recipe - Cheese Bread Pudding (Mf)

1 Loaf french or italian bread
(8 inch long) cut into
1/2inch thick slices
1 cup Milk
2 cup Tomato sauce
One half pound Fontina or mozzarella
cheese, (up to 1) grated or
cut or sliced up
4 ounce Smoked black forest ham,
torn in strips
4 Eggs, lightly beaten
One fourth cup Freshly grated parmesan
cheese
2 tablespoon Butter, cut into pieces
Salt and freshly ground
black pepper

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Soak the bread in the milk for 15 minutes. Line the bottom of a 2 to 2 1/2
quart shallow casserole with a layer of bread soaked bread. Top with a
layer of tomato sauce and mozzarella and some strips of ham. Continue
layering, finishing last layer with bread topped with tomato sauce.

Beat the eggs with Parmesan and pour the mixture over the bread. With a
fork, pierce through layers until egg mixture is absorbed by bread. Dot the
top with butter and bake for 45 minutes or until top if browned and puffed.

While this is baking make a nice vegetable salad to accompany this dish.
Yield: 4 servings Copyright, 1997, TV FOOD NETWORK, G.P., All Rights
Reserved

MC Busted by Gail Shermeyer 4paws@netrax.net by TVFN Website on May 11,
1997

Recipe by: COOKING MONDAY TO FRIDAY SHOW #MF6683 Posted to MCRecipe Digest
V1 #607 by 4paws@netrax.net (ShermeyerGail) on May 12, 1997