Bread Pudding: From Scraps to Riches

Turn stale, leftover bread into this comfort food classic—for breakfast or dessert

Bread puddings run the gamut from simple and homey to over-the-top decadent. Brent Hofacker/Shutterstock

Bread pudding is as much art as it is culinary science. The elements, the ratios, the cooking times … these have remained constant for centuries. The flourishes, the personal preferences, the adaptations?

That’s where the art comes in.