One Christmas card this year had a recipe for Mulled Cider and another this Colonial Williamsburg 18th Century Recipe
Thomas Jefferson’s Favorite Bread Pudding
1 quart scalded milk
½ pound butter, melted
2 ounces brandy
10 eggs
2 pounds of ½ inch cubed stale bread, any kind
2 ½ cups sugar
2 tea cinnamon
1 tea nutmeg
1 T vanilla extract
Cut bread a day ahead to allow drying. Put into 9 x 13” cake pan
Preheat oven to 325. Place milk and butter in pan, heat until just below boiling point, 180 F
Combine eggs, sugar and spices. Slowly add milk to egg and sugar mixture, whisking constantly. Add Brandy. Add to bread mixture, mixing thoroughly to soak bread.
Bake until skewer of knife comes out clean, about 44-50 minutes.
