Oh Man! This is the BEST bread pudding!!! I don't make it very often because I will eat the whole freakin' pan!!!
1 loaf french bread
2 quarts low fat milk
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 T vanilla
1/4 lb unsalted butter - melted
1 1/2 cup raisins
Soak french bread in milk. Crush till well mixed. Beat eggs in separate bowl, gradually add sugar, vanilla, stir will. Add raisins. Pour butter in bottom of baking pan. Add egg mix to bread and milk and blend until bread is soaked through. Pour into baking pan. Bake at 325 for 1 hour.
Now for the BEST part:
Whiskey Sauce
1/4 lb unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup whiskey.
Melt butter in pan and stir in sugar over medium heat. Beat the egg (just a little ) in a dish, add a little of the heated butter/sugar to egg and stir. Then stir egg mix into butter/sugar and mix well. Add the whiskey and cook over medium heat till thickened. Pour over bread pudding.
Now, let me tell you, I am not a whiskey drinker, don't care for the taste - but this sauce is to DIE FOR on bread pudding!