Old Fashioned Bread Pudding

Old fashioned bread pudding can be baked in a solar oven.

Do you love old fashioned bread pudding?  It is such a simple, but fabulous dessert. Shortly after we were married, my mother-in-law gave me this recipe for my husband’s favorite childhood dessert. And it is still one of his favorites.  Only now, I bake it in the solar oven.  Like most old recipes, the ingredients are very “flexible” and the directions are skimpy.  But this is really very easy to do.

Old Fashioned Bread Pudding

Old Fashioned Bread Pudding

 

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Old fashioned Bread Pudding is a very classic but easy to make dessert. And now it can be made in a solar oven

Author: Merry Bevill

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Ingredients

• 3½ cups milk
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon (or more to your taste)
• 10 cups stale bread, torn
• 2 handfuls of raisins (or more if you really like raisins)

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the solar oven while you prepare the ingredients.
2. Loosely beat the eggs. Add the milk, sugar, and cinnamon and stir until well combined.
3. Add the raisins and mix well.
4. Gently pour the milk mixture over the stale bread and allow it to soak up.
5. Pour the milk/bread mixture into a greased solar appropriate baking dish.
6. Bake in the hot solar oven for 1½ - 2 hours until the pudding is firm and brown.. Be sure to test it to be sure it is done.
7. Cut into squares and top with bread pudding sauce.

Notes

The actual time to bake depends on how hot the oven gets which is affected by many variables, such as the type of oven being used, the weather conditions, and how focused the cooker is towards the sun.

In a conventional oven, bake at 375 degrees F for about ½ hour.

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Old Fashioned Bread Pudding baked in a solar oven

Baking the bread pudding was the easy part.  Making the sauce was a bit trickier.   The recipe calls for all of the ingredients to be cooked slowly on the stovetop until the mixture is thick and syrupy.   As we all know, liquid does not easily evaporate in the solar oven, so foods do not lose moisture or “cook down.”  To compensate, I cut the water in the original recipe from 2 1/2 cups to 1 1/2 cups, and then simmered the sauce in the solar oven to combine the flavors.  Although the sauce was not syrupy like the original, it was still very tasty and worked well.

Sauce for Bread Pudding

Old Fashioned Bread Pudding Sauce

 

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This classic sauce for bread pudding is light and sweet

Author: Merry Bevill

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Ingredients

• 1½ cups water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup flour
• ⅓ stick butter or margarine (melted)
• vanilla
• nutmeg
• cinnamon

Instructions

1. Combine all of the ingredients and let simmer in the solar oven or on the stovetop until thickened.
2. This will take longer in the solar oven. The time to cook will vary depending on how hot the oven gets.

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Want to see more like this? Try White Chocolate Bread Pudding