![]() If you buy all of your milk and eggs from the grocery, and especially if you buy those fluffy mass-produced loaves of what my dad always called “baker’s fog”, then you might feel that none of those three are frugal. Stale bread, to be specific, is the most important ingredient. There are three main ingredients – Eggs, Milk, and Bread. There are fancy recipes that have ingredients like whipping cream, expensive gourmet bread … this isn’t that kind of recipe. This is one of those farmhouse recipes, old-fashioned, simple, homey and oh-so-delicious, that a frugal housewife of long ago made quite often. Why should you make this delicious, easy, frugal, old fashioned recipe … well, because it really is delicious, it’s easy to make, and it uses up leftovers. Now before we delve into how to make this pudding, let’s talk about why. bread pudding empty bowl Why Would Anyone Make Old Fashioned Bread Pudding? ![]() There is a good reason why this old fashioned recipe has stood the test of time. Perhaps you grew up in a house where there were no leftovers to be used up and desserts always came from the store? Perhaps, though, you’re in that small chunk of the population who has never had it before. Oh, my gosh, when it comes to this classic farmstead dessert (breakfast, snack, bed lunch?) I’ve noticed that people either love it or they hate it. Good old farmhouse cooking always has butter molasses – if you use a raw sugar, you might want less of this.day-old bread – use a good one, not that icky loaf that didn’t turn out.vanilla – I make my own, but you can buy real vanilla extract.You can use whatever you have on hand – regular 3% milk, half-and-half, or heavy cream. Grandma probably used unskimmed whole milk recently from the cow. egg – It’s hard to make a custard (which is what the base of this is, essentially) without eggs.sugar – just plain white sugar, although you can use a less processed sugar like raw sugar or Demerara sugar.The ingredients used in this are simple – the same as when Great-grandma made it! this is all that you need for the classic recipe. You might find recipes that make this fancy, using specialty ingredients that you’ll need to search for. ![]()
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