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Lake Como Pudding

Source of Recipe

Marla


List of Ingredients

LAKE COMO PUDDING

6 cups thin slices of stale bread

1/2 cup of raisins

6 eggs

1 cup of milk

A little more milk (to soak the bread in)

A pinch of salt

2/3 cup of sugar

2 tsp grated lemon peel (or more to taste)

4 tablespoons cornmeal

4 tablespoons all-purpose flour

4 apples

2 pears

1 cup of seedless red grapes

6 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary ( I used less)

4 tablespoons sugar (I used less)

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil




Recipe

Soak the raisins in hot water.(you can also soak them in warmed Grappa)

Cover them for 15 minutes, and then drain the water away. Take the stale bread and trim the crusts, then soak in some milk for 2 or 3 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Blend the eggs, 1 cup of milk, salt sugar,

lemon peel, cornmeal and flour. Peel, core and slice the apples and the pears. When they're ready, add all the fruit: the apples, the pears, the red grapes, and the drained raisins.

Spread butter generously into two ten-inch pans. Lay the milk-soaked bread into it and pour the batter over the bread, making sure fruit is evenly

distributed. Sprinkle it with rosemary and 4 tablespoons of sugar and

drizzle the olive oil over it. Bake for about an hour, or until a knife,

stuck in the middle, comes out clean. Serve the pudding with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, if desired. This will serve 10-12 people.