This is an approximation for the home cook—but mostly use your common sense and trust your judgement.
For a 13 x 8 or larger roasting pan with sides at least 3’ high.
Ingredients:
- 10-12 cups dried bread (2 loaves of day-old Italian bread or baguettes cut into 1-2 inch cubes and left out overnight to dry)
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 T cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- Pinch of salt
- 6 eggs
- 2 cups 10% Cream (half and half)
- 3 cups milk (we use homogenized)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 -1 ½ cups raisins
Instructions:
- Place dried bread cubes in the baking pan
- Mix together sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
- In a very large bowl, whisk eggs, cream, milk, and vanilla. Add the sugar mixture to the cream and egg mixture and mix well.
- Pour combination over the bread. Add raisins
- Toss with your hands to make sure that the bread is evenly soaked and let sit for at least 1 hour or overnight in the fridge.
- Bake at 350 for 45 min and drop to 300 for 15 minutes longer until set but not dry. Serve with whiskey sauce—and whipped cream—or ice cream.
Forty Creek Whiskey Sauce
Ingredients:
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup heavy cream (35% whipping cream)
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 to 2 ounces Forty Creek Whiskey
Combine sugar, butter and cream in a heavy saucepan. Boil, stirring occasionally for 5 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla and Forty Creek Whiskey.
Recipe and photos courtesy of Mary Comfort and Danielle Murray of Comfort Kitchen
