Chocolate Bread Pudding with Hard Sauce

Description
Purchased from the Colvin Estate in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1989. Dated 1918.

Ingredients
Hard Sauce:
 * 4 slices bread
 * 2 cups milk
 * 2 eggs
 * 2 squares chocolate
 * 1 cup sugar
 * 1 teaspoon vanilla
 * 1 cup confectioners' sugar
 * 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
 * 1/8 teaspoon salt
 * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
 * ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

Directions

 * 1) Break bread into small pieces. Heat 2 cups milk and soak bread in  milk for 1/2 hour.
 * 2) Beat 2 eggs and melt chocolate. Add to bread.  Mix  in sugar and vanilla.
 * 3) Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
 * 4) Make sauce by mixing confectioners' sugar with 3 tablespoons butter, salt and vanilla.
 * 5) Place in small dish and top with nutmeg. When ready to serve pour sauce over bread pudding.

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