Here's an easy recipe for lazy people like me, which was passed on to me by my friend Andrew just in time for Thanksgiving. I like it well enough, and I've seen other people choke it down when I made it, so I must've done something right.
Bread pudding sounds very posh, don't you think? All European and sophisticated. Maybe I only think that because I grew up on a diet of Ramen and Spam...Neither of which, fortunately, you will need for this recipe.
What you will need is...
Preheat your oven to 325F. Dump everything except the bread into a bowl and mix it into a repulsive-looking slurry. Find yourself a smallish cake pan, perhaps 8"x8", or--if you're feeling especially fancy and have lots of this "cookware" stuff about, about six things called "ramekins" which are not Terry Pratchett characters--and rub it or them or yourself or whatever you see fit with a stick of butter until everything is safely greased. Fill your pan or ramekins or bodily cavities with the bread cubes, and then pour your unsightly yet sweetly-scented pumpkin sludge over them, pounding any rebellious bread chunks down into the muck like filthy peasants. Let it all sit for about ten minutes to soak, then pop it or them or yourself or whatever into the oven for forty minutes, which time you can spend digging holes (if you're still outside the oven) or screaming (if you're in). After that you should be pretty well set, or dead, or both. Remove everything from the oven, or instruct your next of kin to do so for you. Don't forget to turn the oven off, or to instruct your next of kin to do so for you, or to cackle while letting it all burn if you don't like your home much. Enjoy.
Posted by aloysius at November 27, 2005 11:12 PM |