Chocolate Bread Pudding with Hard Sauce

Description

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

Ingredients

• 4 slices bread
• 2 cups milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 squares chocolate
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Hard Sauce:

• 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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