Pear Bread Pudding - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup raisins
1/4 cup rum (or 1 tsp rum extract & water)
2 cups pears, peeled, sliced, ripe
1/2 cup sugar
4 cups bread, white, coarsely torn with no crusts
3 cups milk
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F.
Heat rum mixture and pour over raisins; set aside.
Melt 1 tablespoon butter in frypan, add pears and cook 5 minutes.
Add 1/4 cup sugar, stir and cook 2 more minutes and then put aside.
Place bread in bowl.
Scald milk and pour over bread.
Let soak 5 minutes.
Add raisin mixture and pears with syrup.
Beat together eggs, rest of sugar, vanilla and stir in bread mixture.
Pour in buttered baking dish, bake at 350\u00b0F for 50 minutes.