Bread pudding

[jay888]

Hi, I keep hearing about HAL famous bread pudding.  What is it please ?

[CalGal254]

 

It is a yummy concoction of baked day-old bread, milk, butter, eggs, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla, and raisins, which you top with a vanilla custard.  Recipe is available online. 

[Homosassa]

It is what you call bread and butter pudding in the UK.

 

Look for it in the Lido buffet; usually by the ice cream.

[jay888]

Thank you, love bread and butter pudding but not bread pudding 

[SumoCitrus]

It's one of the things I look forward to most when I cruise on HAL. It's a wonderful custardy bread that is served in a bowl with a rich warm vanilla sauce ladled on top. You have to try it.

[Homosassa]

24 minutes ago, jay888 said:

Thank you, love bread and butter pudding but not bread pudding 

Yes.  Bread pudding (bread and butter pudding) is not my favorite but my husband loves the stuff.

 

On the other hand, I do like spice cake (bread pudding).

[puppycanducruise]

I didn't think I liked bread pudding until I had it on a HAL cruise.

Now, it's one of the first things I look for in the Lido.

[jay888]

That’s a pudding from my childhood which I love 😊

[Krazy Kruizers]

I don't care for HAL's bread pudding -- the sauce (watered down custard) is terrible.

 

Years ago the Amsterdam ship used to have a dark chocolate bread pudding with a dark chocolate custard -- now that was really good -- JMO.

[wyobean]

Honestly, it is a lot of hype about nothing...lol. I make way better bread pudding than they do. Tasted it once. That was all I needed. 

[Lady Arwen]

Honestly, it is not as good as it used to be years ago.  Now, it's okay, but it was fabulous before.  The sauce is not the same either.  Oh well, lots of other desserts to try!

[GeorgesGal]

But don't forget, bread pudding is only available at luncheon in the Lido!

 

However, don't fret;  every night HAL's MDR has a fabulous 'crisp'!  Fruit based with a struesel type crispy topping.  Add some ice cream to top off the warm crisps.  Yummy!

[zelker]

1 hour ago, GeorgesGal said:

However, don't fret;  every night HAL's MDR has a fabulous 'crisp'!  Fruit based with a struesel type crispy topping.  Add some ice cream to top off the warm crisps.  Yummy!

 

Those crisps are my downfall!  We've even been known to eat somewhere other than the MDR for dinner, then go not too long before they close and order a crisp with coffee for dessert.  🤩

[jay888]

It sounds like the food is good on HAL ships

[Daisyloo]

2 minutes ago, jay888 said:

It sounds like the food is good on HAL ships

For the most part the food is quite good.   We've never gone hungry.. 😉

 

[twentyknots]

3 hours ago, Lady Arwen said:

Honestly, it is not as good as it used to be years ago.  Now, it's okay, but it was fabulous before.  The sauce is not the same either.  Oh well, lots of other desserts to try!

I agree.  Tried it first in 2005 on the Maasdam and loved it.  A few years later on the  Zuiderdam and Oosterdam it was not nearly as good.  I tried it again on the Oosterdam earlier this month in Alaska hoping it would be as good as the first time but it was a big disappointment.

[terrydtx]

Southern style Beard Pudding with a bourbon sauce is one of my favorite deserts. It is very popular in New Orleans and most of Alabama. I hope to try it on the Noordam in July.

[KroozNut]

18 hours ago, twentyknots said:

I agree.  Tried it first in 2005 on the Maasdam and loved it.  A few years later on the  Zuiderdam and Oosterdam it was not nearly as good.  I tried it again on the Oosterdam earlier this month in Alaska hoping it would be as good as the first time but it was a big disappointment.

 

One's first time is nearly always 'the best', and subsequent similar experiences rarely measure up to that first one. 😉

[jay888]

As this will be my first cruise with HAL I hope that is true😊

[twentyknots]

39 minutes ago, KroozNut said:

 

One's first time is nearly always 'the best', and subsequent similar experiences rarely measure up to that first one. 😉

I thought that only applied to first kiss.  From the movie "Atlantis" : It will be the kiss by which all others... ...in your life will be judged, and found wanting.

[JOHN 57]

Looking forward to trying bread pudding on our cruise on the Volendam 18-25 Sep 19 out of Vancouver.  Now I have had bread pudding from the casinos in Shreveport, Louisiana.  Now that was good.  I will give Holland America's bread pudding a try.

 

[BJzink]

On 6/30/2019 at 8:26 AM, Krazy Kruizers said:

I don't care for HAL's bread pudding -- the sauce (watered down custard) is terrible.

 

Years ago the Amsterdam ship used to have a dark chocolate bread pudding with a dark chocolate custard -- now that was really good -- JMO.

I make lemon pudding to top the bread pudding.  More flavor than vanilla.  But I do get the vanilla - don't like when the raisins are sprinkled on top, they give it a burnt taste......

[KroozNut]

10 hours ago, twentyknots said:

I thought that only applied to first kiss.  From the movie "Atlantis" : It will be the kiss by which all others... ...in your life will be judged, and found wanting.

 

Nope, it actually applies to most folks' 'first time' experience of most anything, really.

[KroozNut]

11 hours ago, jay888 said:

As this will be my first cruise with HAL I hope that is true😊

 

I'm hoping so as well, and I'm pretty sure that it will be! 😃