yield: (makes 12 hearty portions)
INGREDIENTS
- French bread, cut into ½ inch cubes, toasted. 2 – 8oz. Loaves
- Milk 1 quart
- Half-and-half 1 quart
- Eggs, beaten 12
- Sugar 2 ½ cups
- Light brown sugar 1 cup
- Sweet butter 2 sticks
- Raisins 1 cup
- Apple, peeled, cored, cut into ½ inch dice – 1
- Cinnamon 1tbls.
- Nutmeg ¼ tsp.
- Salt pinch
- Vanilla extract 2 tsp.
- Bourbon 2 tbls.
- Vanilla ice cream as needed
Directions
1. Combine sugars and divide in half.
2. Add cinnamon, eggs, vanilla, bourbon and salt to ½ of the sugar.
3. In a saucepan, combine milk, half & half and butter with the other half of the sugar and bring to a boil.
4. Whisk milk mixture into egg mixture, add raisins and apples. Add bread cubes and let stand until soaked through to center.
5. Stir in a few raisins from the bottom and sprinkle a few on top.
6. Pour into buttered baking dish (10x13x3-inches) and bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.
7. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
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