Ingredients
6 eggs
1 qt milk
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
6 slice egg bread (thick), diced regular size slices
1 jam or jelly (optional)
1 cherries, raisins or other fruit (, optional)
1 ground cinnamon (optional)
1 flake coconut (optional)
Directions
Beat eggs. Beat in milk, vanilla, sugar and nutmeg. Mix in bread
cubes. Turn into greased 2-quart baking dish. Jam or jelly may be
swirled through mixture. Or add cherries, raisins or other fruit.
Sprinkle with cinnamon and coconut, if desired. Bake at 325F 45
minutes, until set.
Servings: 8 servings
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Categories: Bread; Bread Pudding; Breads; Dessert
The History of Recipes
We are able to follow the history of meal recipes back into the far past, certainly as far back as pharonic Egypt, and maybe further still. However, generally, these early cook books were just simple pictorial recipes for food preparation.
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