Recipe: Chocolate Bread Pudding with Hard Sauce

CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING WITH HARD SAUCE

2 cups milk
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
1/4 cup margarine
4 cups coarse bread crumbs (tear slices)
1/2 cup sugar
2 slightly beaten eggs
dash salt
dash vanilla

Heat the milk, chocolate and margarine in large sauce pan until melted. Put bread in a large mixing bowl. Pour chocolate mixture over bread, add sugar, eggs, salt and vanilla, mix well. Pour into greased casserole dish. Place casserole into a pan with 1-inch hot water on rack in 350F oven. Bake 1 hour. Serve warm, topped with hard sauce.

Hard Sauce:

8 TBSP butter or margarine
2 cups confectioner's sugar
4 TBSP evap milk
vanilla