Recipe: Old Fashioned Bread Pudding with Vanilla Sauce

OLD FASHIONED BREAD PUDDING

2 cup milk
4 cup coarse bread crumbs
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, melted
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup raisins (optional)
1 tsp. ground cinnamon or nutmeg
Vanilla Sauce (for serving)

Heat milk to scalding; pour over bread crumbs. Cool.

Combine remaining ingredients and add to bread mixture. Pour into buttered 1 1/2-quart casserole. Set in pan of hot water 1-inch deep.

Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees F or until knife is inserted in pudding and comes out clean. Serve with Vanilla Sauce.

VANILLA SAUCE

1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. cornstarch
2 cup boiling water
4 Tbsp. butter
2 tsp. vanilla

Mix sugar and cornstarch in saucepan. Stir boiling water in gradually. Boil 1 minute, stirring constantly. Stir in butter and vanilla. Keep hot until time to be served.