Pear Bread Pudding

Name: Pear Bread Pudding
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 907 grams loaves sliced artisan bread, cut into 3/4 inch strips with crusts removed; 59 milliliters brown sugar; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 8 eggs; 296 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 pinch ground cinnamon; 237 milliliters half-and-half cream; 473 milliliters heavy cream; 59 milliliters pear brandy; 4 pears - peeled, cored and sliced; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 237 milliliters white sugar

Pear Bread Pudding is a vegetarian recipe with 12 servings. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 643 calories, 15g of protein, and 30g of fat. A mixture of loaves artisan bread, brown sugar, heavy cream, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. It works best as a dessert, and is done in about 55 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

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In a medium bowl, stir together the brown sugar, 1/4 cup white sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt.

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Brown Sugar

Granulated Sugar

Cinnamon

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Bowl

Mix in the butter and 1 tablespoon of vanilla just until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside.

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Vanilla

Butter

In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, 1 cup white sugar, half-and-half, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, pear brandy and salt.

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Granulated Sugar

Vanilla

Brandy

Egg

Pear

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Line the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish with a layer of bread. Top with a layer of pear.

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Bread

Pear

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Pour about 1/4 of the custard over the layers followed by about 1/3 of the heavy cream.

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Heavy Cream

Custard

Sprinkle with some of the crumb topping. Repeat layers until you are out of ingredients, ending with the crumb topping on top. Press down on the layers as needed to help them absorb the liquid. Cover the pan with parchment paper then seal with aluminum foil.

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Aluminum Foil

Frying Pan

Place another baking pan on top or two dinner plates to keep it from puffing while it bakes.

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Place the pudding onto a larger pan or cookie sheet with sides.

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Frying Pan

Pour boiling water into the bottom pan until it is half way full.

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Water

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Frying Pan

Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, then reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and continue baking for 25 minutes. Pudding is done when a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.

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Knife