Pear Bread Pudding With Jack Daniels Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 large loaf french bread, cubed and dried (overnight)
• 2 -3 semi ripe pears, peeled, cored and diced in bite sized pieces
• 1/4 cup dried cranberries (or craisins)
• 2 cups wine
• 6 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups sugar (i use turbinado or brown)
• 2 pints half-and-half
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup jack daniels whiskey
• 1 cup half-and-half

Recipe

• 1 place bread cubes in a lightly greased lasagna style baking dish.
• 2 in a sauce pan, poach pears in wine until softened (10-15 minutes) then add dried cranberries and stir. remove from heat and allow cranberries to reconstitute in the wine (5 minutes).
• 3 in a large mixing bowl, combine eggs, 1 1/2 c sugar, 2 pints half and half, salt and vanilla and mix until sugar is dissolved.
• 4 pour egg mixture over torn bread cubes toss to coat evenly and allow to absorb (5 minutes). pour fruit mixture over bread and egg mixture and dot with 2 t of butter.
• 5 bake at 350 for 1 hour.
• 6 sauce:.
• 7 melt butter over medium high heat in a sauce pan.
• 8 add brown sugar stirring constantly until sugar is melted and begins to bubble. add whiskey and bring to a slight boil, stirring constantly for 2 minutes.
• 9 reduce heat to medium and stir in half and half. continue to cook 2-3 minutes more over medium heat until slightly thickened (should have the consistency of hot fudge sauce) when ready.
• 10 remove from heat and drizzle over individual servings of bread pudding. enjoy!