Apricot Bread Pudding With Orange Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 eggs
1/2 c. sugar
2 c. milk, scalded
5 Tbsp. butter or margarine
1 Tbsp. grated orange rind
dash of salt
3 c. soft bread cubes
1 c. dried apricots, cut up
1/4 c. chopped pecans
Orange Sauce (recipe follows)

Preparation

Beat eggs and sugar until light and fluffy.
Combine next 4 ingredients and gradually stir into mixture.
Put bread cubes, apricots and pecans in buttered shallow 1 1/2-quart baking dish and pour egg mixture over top.
Set in shallow pan of hot water and bake in preheated moderate oven (350\u00b0) for 1 hour or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
Serve with warm Orange Sauce.
Makes 6 servings.