Bread-and-butter Pudding With Whiskey Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 tablespoons sultanas
• 8 tablespoons butter, plus additional
• butter, for greasing
• 1 lb bread, sliced
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup cream
• 1 vanilla bean
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup milk, cold
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/4 cup whiskey

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 soak sultanas in hot water for 10 minutes, then drain.
• 3 butter the bread.
• 4 remove crusts and cut into triangles.
• 5 arrange in a greased deep casserole dish along with raisins.
• 6 in a saucepan, bring the milk, cream, vanilla bean and sugar to just below a boil.
• 7 remove the vanilla bean.
• 8 add milk mixture to the eggs.
• 9 through a strainer, pour the egg-and-milk mixture onto the bread.
• 10 leave to soak.
• 11 cover with aluminum foil and cook in a water bath in preheated oven, approximately 55 minutes. remove foil and bake 5 more minutes to allow top to crisp.
• 12 to make the whiskey sauce: boil the milk, then remove from heat.
• 13 in a separate saucepan, mix the sugar and egg yolks.
• 14 add egg mixture to milk and return to heat.
• 15 cook gently over low heat, stirring constantly, until sauce thickens slightly.
• 16 stir in whiskey.
• 17 serve warm.