Ingredients for pudding:
l loaf French bread
1 quart half-and-half
2 Tbsp. butter
3 eggs
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 Tbsp. almond extract
3/4 cup sliced almonds
3/4 cup raisins
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Grease a 9x13
baking dish with the butter.
Break up bread into small pieces.
Place in a
bowl and cover with half-in-half.
Cover bowl
and let stand for one hour.
In a separate bowl,
beat together eggs, sugar
and extract.
Stir into bread mixture.
Gently fold in raisins and almonds into bread mixture.
Spread bread mixture evenly in buttered baking dish.
Set on middle rack of oven and bake 50 minutes
or until golden brown.
Remove and cool. Pour on the sauce.
-Sauce-
Ingredients:
8 Tbspbutter
1 cup confectioners sugar (sifted)
1 egg (well beaten)
4 Tbsp. Amaretto liquor
Preparation:
In top of double boiler over simmering water,
stir
together butter and sugar.
Stir constantly until sugar and butter are dissolved
and mixture is very hot.
Remove from heat.
Whisk the egg well into the butter
and sugar mixture.
Continue whisking until sauce has
come to room temperature.
Add amaretto liquor.