# Bread Pudding?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-pudding/621826>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 14, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-pudding/621826 "2012-05-14T01:00:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-pudding/621826/41 "2012-05-15T02:15:30Z")

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I love it, but rarely eat it because none I’ve found can match my mother’s. (Mama has passed on.) I’ve tried to make it, but I wasn’t happy with it. She’d also make a lemony sauce to pour on the pudding. And I did ask her once for the recipe and I got :“oh just a cup or so of this, and a bit of that, and a few teaspoons of that…” She didn’t have any of her recipes written down, so i guess she learned from her Mama (who was also a very good cook) and didn’t have to think much about it."  
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-pudding/621826/42 "2012-05-15T02:17:50Z")

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I prefer egg custard. But bread pudding is almost as good. I’ll take a bowl please. 😃

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**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-pudding/621826/43 "2012-05-15T02:46:55Z")

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I never even heard of bread pudding until I was an adult. It just wasn’t in my dessert repertoire. At all. I’ve tasted it a few times, even my DIL’s recipe which is regarded as legendary by many people. Still “meh” about it.

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**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-pudding/621826/44 "2012-05-15T14:29:28Z")

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For those searching for the perfect lemon sauce, the easiest and best I’ve found is this:

Cheap, mild sour cream (store brand, not Breakstone’s) 1 cup  
[Lemon curd](http://www.amazon.com/Tiptree-Lemon-Curd-Wilkin-Sons/dp/B000KM1XP4/ref=pd_sim_sbs_gro_2), two tablespoons (or to taste), gently warmed in microwave until just melted. (4 tblsp for me, but I like things really lemony. also depends upon the strength of the particular brand.)

mix and pour over bread pudding\*.

\*or anything else you can think of.

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-pudding/621826/45 "2012-05-15T21:44:51Z")

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I’ll be in my bunk.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-pudding/621826/46 "2012-05-16T01:35:23Z")

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Stumbled on an episode of _Good Eats_ today, AB was making bread pudding. (many variations)

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