Best Bread Pudding

• 2 loaves French Bread - cut into chunks - day old
• 6 cups whole Milk
• 3/4 pounds butter
• 5 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup vanilla extract (real stuff)
• 3/4 cup golden raisins
• Cinnamon
• Hard sauce
• 2 C cream
• 1/4 butter
• 1/4 cup confection sugar
• 1 egg yolks
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup bourbon

1. Heat milk with butter until butter is melted
2. Combine with a whisk eggs, sugar vanilla
3. Add the hot milk/butter mixture
4. Pour over bread and add raisins
5. Let soak for 10 minutes
6. Transfer to a buttered glass baking dish
7. Dot with butter and sprinkle with cinnamon
8. Bake in a water bath at 350F for 40-45 minutes
9. Should be just firm but not dry.
10. Hard Sauce
11. Heat cream with butter
12. Add confection sugar
13. In a separate bowl whisk egg yolk
14. Drissle in hot milk - pour back into sauce pan
15. add bourbon and low heat

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/best-bread-pudding-52199611 (may not work)