More Blueberry Goodness + More Quilt Blocks

More Blueberries = More Blueberry Goodness

I used up another two cups of blueberries from our picking adventure.

Read More and Blueberry Muffin Recipe Here

My hubby loves custard and he loves bread pudding and he loves blueberries
so I devised this recipe to combine the three
and use up some bread and eggs going out of date 

and some more of our yummy fresh picked blueberries.

Blueberry Custard Style Bread Pudding 

• 3 cups milk
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon rum extract (optional)
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon ground mace
• 4 extra large eggs
• 6 cups day old bread cut roughly into 1 inch pieces, any combination
• 1 cup sugar, separated
• 2 cups fresh picked blueberries
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened

Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F

Butter a 2 and 1/2 quart baking dish

Any combination of dry bread goods will work.  I used 3/4 loaf of oatmeal bread and 6 hot dog rolls.  Use up whatever you have.

The ratio is about 1 cup bread pieces to 1/2 cup milk to 1 egg. 

Wash and dry blueberries, picking out stems and such.

Cut or break bread into 1 inch pieces and place in buttered dish.

mix blueberries gently into bread pieces in baking dish.  Leave a good sprinkling on the top.

Whisk eggs well of mix with hand mixer until frothy.  Add milk and extracts and spices.  Whisk or mix well.   Mix in 3/4 cup of sugar.

Pour milk/egg mixtures over bread pieces and let the liquid soak in about 10 minutes.

Dot top with butter.

Sprinkle top with remaining sugar and dust with cinnamon.

Cover with lid or loosely with fold and bake about 20 minutes.  Remove lid and continue baking for another 40 minutes.  Test by touch or gently moving the dish to see how much it shakes or is still liquid.

Tent with aluminum foil or parchment paper and return to oven until a small sharp knife inserted into the center comes out clean and it starts to pull away from the sides of the dish at the top.  About another 15 minutes.

Total baking time for a 2 quart bread pudding this size is an hour to an hour and a half.

Let sit on wire rack at room temperature uncovered for 5 minutes before serving.

Dust with powdered sugar and serve with whipped cream or as desired. Enjoy!

Cool, cover and refrigerate leftovers if you have any.

This was so good warm from the oven with a loittle whipped cream, 

we both had second desserts.

Since we like custard cold, this is good served right from the refrigerator or warmed up. 

All 89 blocks are sewn and pressed and trimmed and ready to sewn into the top for

New Batik Quilt For My Guy Started Here

I also sewed my Day 47 ~ Block 47 for the 

Kinship Fusion Sampler Quilt @ Gnome Angel

#100days100blocks2019

Another cool, sunny and happy quilty day 

here in the Scrapatch.

I hope you had a nice day, too. 

Goodnight, World ... :-)