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Louisiana bourbon bread pudding

• Janine Ratcliffe

Published: March 25, 2015 at 3:08 PM

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Serves 6

Easy

Total time: 55 mins

+ soaking

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Bread pudding is a New Orleans staple with most restaurants serving a version of it. It’s like our bread and butter pudding, and it’s usually served with a ‘hard’ boozy sauce

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Ingredients

Nutrition

• 100g flame raisins

• 6 tbsp bourbon

• ½ baguette

  about 200g

• 300ml milk

• 300ml double cream

• 25g butter

  melted

• 4 tbsp caster sugar

• 3 large eggs

• ½ tsp ground allspice

• ½ tsp cinnamon

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• to serve vanilla ice-cream

BOURBON BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE

• 100g dark muscovado sugar
• 100ml double cream
• 50g butter
• 2-3 tbsp bourbon

Nutrition: per serving

• kcal785
• fat50.6g
• carbs62.2g
• fibre1.6g
• protein8.8g
• salt0.7g

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Method

• step 1

  Put the raisins and bourbon in a small pan and simmer gently for 5 minutes then turn off the heat. Cover and leave the raisins to soak for an hour or so.

• step 2

  Beat the milk, cream, melted butter, sugar, eggs, spices and vanilla together. Stir in the soaked raisins and liquid.

• step 3

  Heat the oven to 160c/fan 140c/gas 3. Cut the baguette into small chunks and put in the bottom of a well-buttered shallow-ish baking dish. Pour over the custard mix and leave to soak for 30 minutes, then bake for 45 minutes until puffed and golden.

• step 4

  To make the sauce, put the dark muscovado sugar, double cream and butter in a pan. Bring to a simmer then cook for 3-4 minutes. Add the bourbon then cook for another minute.

• step 5

  Serve a slice of the bread pudding topped with a scoop of ice-cream and some sauce spooned over.

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Janine RatcliffeFood director

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