yield: 6-8 servings
Leftover bread can easily be converted to dessert without much work.
INGREDIENTS
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons butter + more for greasing pan
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
⅓ cup sugar
Pinch salt
½ loaf sweet egg bread like challah or brioche, cut into 2-inch cubes (about 5 to 6 cups) - any stale bread will also work
2 eggs, beaten
PREPARATION
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a small saucepan over low heat, warm milk, butter, vanilla, sugar and salt. Continue cooking just until butter melts; cool.
Meanwhile, butter a 4-to-6-cup baking dish and fill it with cubed bread.
Add eggs to cooled milk mixture and whisk; pour mixture over bread.
Bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until custard is set but still a little wobbly and edges of bread have browned.
Serve warm or at room temperature. Yum!
Variations:
add fresh or dried fruit
add combination of spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cardamom
can be served with fresh fruit compote
add a handful of chocolate chips before baking for a decidedly more decadent outcome
delicious with whipping cream or a scoop of ice cream
Adpated and borrowed from Mark Bittman, The New York Times
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