Pear Bread Pudding

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

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/4 cup rum (or 1 tsp rum extract & water)
• 2 cups pears, peeled, sliced, ripe
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 4 cups bread, , coarsely torn with no crusts
• 3 cups milk
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 heat rum mixture and pour over raisins; set aside.
• 3 melt 1 tablespoon butter in frypan, add pears and cook 5 minutes.
• 4 add 1/4 cup sugar, stir and cook 2 more minutes and then put aside.
• 5 place bread in bowl.
• 6 scald milk and pour over bread.
• 7 let soak 5 minutes.
• 8 add raisin mixture and pears with syrup.
• 9 beat together eggs, rest of sugar, vanilla and stir in bread mixture.
• 10 pour in buttered baking dish, bake at 350°f for 50 minutes.