The grocery order came with two baguettes rather than the one I had ordered. We can only eat one in a day or so, and I had no idea what to do with the other. As it dried out I remembered bread pudding as an excellent use for stale bread. On the counter sat a large bowl of blueberries, freshly picked and not yet frozen. My husband’s blueberry garden has been particularly productive and we have had blueberries galore. Perhaps I could find a recipe for blueberry bread pudding.
I love my well worn cookbooks, but this search sent me to the internet. Here I found countless recipes, most of them requiring heavy cream, lots of butter and copious amounts of sugar. None sounded either appealing, simple or healthy. Then I ran across the “Kemptville Blueberry Bread Pudding” recipe. I planned to link it to the post, but found you would also get numerous ads. Suffice it to say it is easy to find using its title. This recipe actually asked for cubing a stale baguette! After adding skim milk,vanilla, two eggs, a cup of sugar, one and one half cups of blueberries and dotting the top with butter, I popped it in the oven.
I would have featured a photo of the product, but my husband got to it before my camera did. Best about this version is that the crunchy crust of the French bread gives the pudding a satisfying contrast between the milk soaked bread and the top. Next time you find yourself with an unexpected baguette, I recommend the treat.
It sounds delightful, Elizabeth!
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I hear it was.
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😊
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It’s no use telling us now when it’s all gone!
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I agree!
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That bread pudding sounds delightful.
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Very easy and very good.
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Bread pudding was a staple dessert of my youth. It was always very sweet, and full of plump sultanas or raisins. I rarely eat it now, but your one does sound tasty! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I guess you would agree with me that the comment that it was too sweet was pretty silly.
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In my mother’s stuff that we went through upon her passing was a cookbook she put together. It was a project she initiated when she was president of the PTA for my elementary school. It was 1960. Many contributed recipes and kitchen how to advice. I find it a treasure of depression era wisdom.
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I follow a writer who blogs about a 1920 cookbook. I love the contrast between then and now and I think your cookbook would be similarly interesting.
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Now I wish I had some stale bread on hand!
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Easy to do. Just don’t eat it. LOL
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Sounds wonderful!
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I hear that it was!
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You mean he didn’t save you a bite? 😃
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That sounds so yummy. You should have taken pictures.
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Ha. Charlie ate it too fast to do that!
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Craving for sweets, we don’t have baking supplies at the moment.
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Just you or are the stores out?
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Here at home but we have plenty of canned goods. They have to go to the mall to buy baking supplies but I told them to just buy later.
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My favourite pudding – back in the day when I freely ate whatever I fancied – was bread and butter pudding. My father’s favourite was bread pudding. His choise always seemed too dense and doughy; my version was much lighter and with the crispy top. Your recipe sounds delicious – and way too tempting!
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Yes I prefer less dense too. I was unable to eat more than a bite, but not because it was too good. It somehow disappeared!
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That sounds delicious! I love blueberries.
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But I don’t think the recipe would get you closer to your weight goal!!
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No definitely not ha!
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LOL
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Today I made Aloo Paratha. It is potato stuffed flat bread. There was cooked potato left so like you I searched in the internet for potato stuffed buns 🙂 And found one. Planning to make it tomorrow.
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https://www.tarladalal.com/Aloo-Paratha-How-To-Make-Aloo-Paratha-2172r
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Thanks so much. We have eaten that at the restaurant but hadn’t thought of cooking it at home.
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That sounds truly delicious Elizabeth & now I’m salivating for blueberry bread & butter pudding! 😀
Blessings,
Jennifer
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My husband finished out the pan last night!
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I’m in pain
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Blueberry bread pudding sounds amazing, Elizabeth.
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It was according to Charlie.
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This looks fantastic
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