Old Time Bread Pudding

Ok ok ok... so sometimes, just sometimes, Nanny makes things that are not necessarily family recipes but part of the family just the same.

You know when you're flipping through Our State magazine or Southern Living (or in my case Natural Health, Gourmet, etc...)and you see the advertisements for some brand of rice or beans with a little recipe "clipping" for "Creamy Skillet Chicken Casserole?" Well, Nanny loves these. If you've ever looked through her recipe box or just a pile of papers on the kitchen table, you'll find one. At some point in her life, she clipped a recipe for PET Milk "Bread Pudding". The clipping referred to the recipe as "Old Time Bread Pudding". Based on the look of the clipping, I'm guessing it originated sometime in the 1960s or 1970s.

As many know, this dessert is a weakness for me. If I see "bread pudding" on a dessert menu at ANY restaurant- I have to have it. I've had it all and I can't get enough. Well, this recipe is my go-to bread pudding recipe that is made from things right in your own pantry- no difficulty here! I have several other recipes that I love to prepare (you can't beat Irish cream bread pudding) but this one is just what it says... that Old Time taste that you expect from a bread pudding. This is Nanny's favorite and she makes it more often than most people realize (it's just that I usually eat it all by morning, so you have to be around early).

Old Time Bread Pudding
Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.

4 slices buttered toast, cut into squares
1/3 cup raisins
2 slightly beaten eggs
1/4 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup PET milk (evaporated milk)
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon vanilla

Place toast pieces in a greased 1 1/2 quart casserole. Spring raisins over the toast. Pour over toast a mixture of eggs, sugar, salt, milk, boiling water, and vanilla. Let stand for 10 minutes and spring with sugar and cinnamon.

The recipe says bake for 30 minutes but it usually takes longer than that. The pudding is finished when a toothpick comes out clean.

Yummmmmmmmmmmmm!!!