# Do you like bread pudding? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289 "2017-09-14T03:13:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/41 "2017-09-14T22:17:34Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Yes. But for some reason, people started putting raisins in it. SWMBO is from New Orleans and she turns her nose up at “dead-fly” bread pudding. Raisins are the best part. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/42 "2017-09-14T23:19:01Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Raisins are the best part. I am fairly certain that is the most unreasonable thing that has ever been said on the Straight Dope. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/43 "2017-09-14T23:34:48Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > I am fairly certain that is the most unreasonable thing that has ever been said on the Straight Dope. I’m honored. 😃 Seriously, though - I love the raisins in bread pudding. My wife hates them, which means I rarely get to have bread pudding with raisins. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/44 "2017-09-14T23:43:35Z")
What reasonable person doesn’t love bread pudding!? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/45 "2017-09-15T00:18:58Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No option to vote for “It depends”? No, because you either like it (overall) or you don’t. If you eat it, then chances are, you like it. If you didn’t like it, then you wouldn’t ever eat it (regardless of how it was made or what kind it was, etc). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/46 "2017-09-15T00:22:28Z")
Fresh out of the oven and covered in vanilla sauce (Devonshire custard). :o ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/47 "2017-09-15T00:28:23Z")
Yes , I like bread pudding but I really can’t bread anymore more . I like cornbread pudding too with vanilla ice cream on the top ! ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/48 "2017-09-15T00:44:37Z")
I love bread pudding, with raisins or without. Sometimes I make it with Craisins or slices of apple. A couple of the restaurants at Walt Disney World’s Polynesian Resort serve a spectacularly rich version, 'Ohana Bread Pudding with Bananas Foster Sauce, a la mode: [Recipe: 'Ohana Bread Pudding | the disney food blog](http://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2009/06/09/recipe-ohana-bread-pudding/) ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/49 "2017-09-15T00:46:52Z")
I don’t really care for it. If I want that sort of flavor, I’d rather have a good cinnamon roll or coffee cake, not dressed up leftovers\* as dessert. That said, I’ve been low-carbing off and on for what feels like centuries, so bread pudding just doesn’t seem like a food at all (iow, if I’m going to egregiously gorge on carbs, it’s going to be a loaded baked potato or a really awesome sandwich, not straight starch mixed with other starch and two sugars 😉 ) (\*I do fully enjoy savory bread pudding, aka turkey dressing, once a year. 🙂 ) Edit: I see some rather divisive comments about raisins. Plumped-up raisins are a saving grace for foods like bread pudding and cinnamon rolls. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/50 "2017-09-15T01:06:00Z")
Much to my surprise the first time I had it, Gordon Biersch has some of the best chain restaurant bread pudding in existence (IMHO). I’ve had it a few times since; it does not appear to be a fluke. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/51 "2017-09-15T01:17:42Z")
> [@Elemenopy](#): > > I don’t really care for it. If I want that sort of flavor, I’d rather have a good cinnamon roll or coffee cake, not dressed up leftovers\* as dessert. Not all bread pudding tastes like a cinnamon roll or coffee cake. New Orleans has its own versions that the vast majority of people love. It typically has a bourbon or rum sauce to go with it that is exquisite when prepared correctly. It is definitely distinctive tasting whether you like it or not and tastes nothing like a Cinnabon or coffee cake. The hotel I used to work in made a famous version that I used to be sent to serve to VIP’s at high-end fund raisers and, judging by people’s reactions, they really, really liked it. I should have asked for the full recipe or saw the whole process of it being made - only the end result and it was outstanding. There were other establishments that also claimed the title of best bread pudding and I had those too. It was kind of hard to tell because they were all so excellent. There wasn’t anything “leftover” about them. Here are some versions: > **[\- neworleansrestaurants.com](https://www.neworleansrestaurants.com/guides/bread-pudding)** > > Bread pudding was once considered a poor man’s dessert – a good way to make use of stale… ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/52 "2017-09-15T01:26:02Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Can we claim french toast as a one layer bread pudding? 😛 I’m cool with that. 😉 > [@gkster](#): > > I love bread pudding, with raisins or without. Sometimes I make it with Craisins or slices of apple. My pear tree produces prodigious amounts of fruit about every other year. I don’t much care for canned pears, so after I’ve had my fill of fresh ones, I dehydrate the rest. Dried pears are addictive, and one of my favorite things to do with them is to chop and add them to a bread pudding. I’ll bet you’d like that version, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/53 "2017-09-15T01:48:14Z")
No, which is funny, because I like french toast, and to me, bread pudding is just french toast casserole. I think it’s a textural thing. StG ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/54 "2017-09-15T02:45:36Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Not all bread pudding tastes like a cinnamon roll or coffee cake. New Orleans has its own versions that the vast majority of people love. It typically has a bourbon or rum sauce to go with it that is exquisite when prepared correctly. It is definitely distinctive tasting whether you like it or not and tastes nothing like a Cinnabon or coffee cake. The hotel I used to work in made a famous version that I used to be sent to serve to VIP’s at high-end fund raisers and, judging by people’s reactions, they really, really liked it. > > I should have asked for the full recipe or saw the whole process of it being made - only the end result and it was outstanding. There were other establishments that also claimed the title of best bread pudding and I had those too. It was kind of hard to tell because they were all so excellent. There wasn’t anything “leftover” about them. I totally hear what you are saying…however…the first time I spent Christmas morn ing at my inlaws in NOLA I was told I made that and the cheese grits better than anyone. Pretty good for a know-nothing Yank, I guess, but I felt like I was just polishing a turd. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/55 "2017-09-15T03:08:15Z")
Oh, hell, yeah; every version is dy-no-mite! Hey, you got some? I could send you an address. You know, take it off yer hands for you. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/56 "2017-09-15T03:43:57Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > Maybe it’s just me, but I would call “savory bread pudding” dressing or stuffing. And not pudding at all. Pudding is desert, and therefore sweet. Yeah, I can see that. But the savory bread puddings I make usually have a lot of eggs and cheese and sometimes greens like spinach or kale, which I don’t associate with stuffing (I guess traditional Thanksgiving stuffing has eggs, but savory bread pudding tends to be more eggy). Stuffing seems to me to be sort of looser or more crumbly, while a savory bread pudding is more dense. YMMV, and apparently it does. 🙂 As far as whether the term “pudding” can only be applied to desserts, generally I agree, but I don’t know what else to call a dense egg-and-bread thing that’s not sweet and not stuffing. Plus, I only learned to make them from Mark Bittman, and that’s what he calls them. Also, as a vegetarian, I want it to be known that you can have your pudding even if you don’t eat your meat. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/57 "2017-09-15T05:06:19Z")
“Bread pudding” is really more of a breakfast food than a dessert, for me. Allow me to clarify: I grew up in a Southern California suburb during the 60s, as one of ten children of a SAHM and a working-class dad. My parents were not Plains Indians, but the concept of using “every part of the buffalo” cerrtainly resonated with them. I’m unsure if Mom ever dealt with the stereotype of children who refused to eat the heels of a loaf of bread, or if she was simply taking no chances, but on the top of our refrigerator was a large brown-paper grocery store bag, and into this bag would go the aforementioned heels. In the several weeks that it took to fill the bag, those crusts of bread staled up nicely. Once the bag was full, Mom would wait for the next Saturday morning. Into a large pot, she would put a quart or two of milk, a cup of sugar, a tablespoon of vanilla extract, and half a pound of raisins. Then she would break the stale bread crusts into the milk as she stirred and heated it. That would be our breakfast for Saturday morning, as well as our mid-morning snack. Bread-and-milk was not as popular with some of my youngerr siblings. I suspect this is because, as the older ones aged and moved out, it took longer and longer for the remaining kids to finish off a batch. So while I realize that our breakfast wasn’t bread pudding, **per se** , these days, it’s hardly ever my dessert choice when I see it in the menu. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/58 "2017-09-15T08:36:48Z")
I love bread pudding, with nuts and fresh and dried fruit. Bread pudding with golden sultanas, chopped hazelnuts and fresh black cherries, yumm. When we have fresh cherries, I prefer to make _clafoutis_, but not all the fam likes that (why, I have no idea!), so a cherry bread pudding is a reasonable compromise. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > In the several weeks that it took to fill the bag (my emphasis) :eek: sounds more like a recipe for mycelium pudding. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/59 "2017-09-15T14:33:39Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Yes. But for some reason, people started putting raisins in it. **SWMBO is from New Orleans and she turns her nose up at “dead-fly” bread pudding**. Interesting. Life-long New Orleanian … here to say that bread pudding is a well-loved local classic. Lots of people make it lots of different ways, it’s true. But around here, bread pudding _with raisins_ is the definitive version. Others’ MMV, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289/60 "2017-09-15T16:11:35Z")
Hmmm…“savory bread pudding”…“Mark Bittman”… OH! You mean _strata!_ > **[Savory Bread Pudding With Kale and Mushrooms Recipe](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12280-savory-bread-pudding-with-kale-and-mushrooms)** > > These dishes, known also as strata, can be rich, but they are just as satisfying when made with low-fat milk The formula works well for any number of cooked vegetables tossed with stale bread and mixed with milk, eggs and cheese. I’m mainly seen _strata_ as a breakfast dish at country inns and B&Bs. The host can cook the ham and eggs and toast (and mushrooms, peppers, onions, whatever) all together in one big casserole, and save the trouble of making individual dishes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-bread-pudding/796289.md?page=4)