Back to bread pudding discussion: my neighbor's wife gave me his family's bread pudding recipe

marilynfl

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He comes from an old Charleston family and this version decorates the top with meringue. Meringue? It seems like unnecessary sweetness on top of an already sweet dish.

So is that a South of the Mason/Dixon Line thing? A Low Country or Charleston thing? Or just his mother's whimsy?

Because I've never seen it done that way before, but then I grew up in the Eastern European Melting Pot of All Souls that is Pittsburgh. And if it didn't have potatoes and/or sauerkraut and/or walnuts in it, it wasn't it.

But that's how I'm going to make it for him. Of course, I don't have the OFFICIAL BREAD PUDDING PAN THAT HAS BEEN HANDED DOWN THROUGH THE AGES PAN, so I guess a disposable foil pan will have to do.

 
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