Irish Bread Pudding With Whiskey Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 1 lb bread, cubed
• 6 ounces melted butter
• 8 eggs
• 1 cup sugar, plus
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 quart milk
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 2 1/4 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 pinch nutmeg
• 1 lb butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 1/3 cup irish whiskey

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350.
• 2 line a large, deep roasting pan with dish towels.
• 3 bring a kettle of water to a boil.
• 4 place rack in the center of oven.
• 5 drizzle the melted butter over bread cubes and place them in a buttered 9-by-13-inch baking pan.
• 6 scald the milk and cream.
• 7 mix together the eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla. stir in the hot milk and cream.
• 8 pour this custard over the bread cubes.
• 9 sprinkle lightly with cinnamon and nutmeg (go easy on the nutmeg).
• 10 place baking pan in roasting pan and set on oven rack.
• 11 pour boiling water into roasting pan until it comes at least halfway up the sides of the baking pan.
• 12 bake in a water bath until set, about 40 minutes.
• 13 serve warm with whisky sauce.
• 14 you'll only need 1/2 the recipe for the sauce, or make only 1/2 the recipe.
• 15 whiskey sauce:.
• 16 melt the butter in a sauce pan over medium heat.
• 17 when bubbling, whisk in sugar but do not bring to boil.
• 18 in a separate bowl beat the egg yolks.
• 19 when the sugar is melted, slowly whisk the yolks into the sugar mixture.
• 20 remove from heat.
• 21 slowly whisk in the whisky and drizzle over bread pudding.