21.   But heavy cakes and bread puddings are simply too much to stomach.

22.   Cafe Esin in San Ramon makes this bread pudding with leftover challah.

23.   Chita Marasigan, his pastry chef, fills crepes with the caramel and drizzles the sauce over bread pudding.

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25.   Coconut milk gives this bread pudding a lusciously exotic twist.

26.   Cut bread pudding into slices.

27.   Desserts, too, were varied, but once I tried the bread pudding with whiskey sauce, I never ordered anything else.

28.   Desserts, like the crisp-crusted bread pudding with bourbon sauce, are homey and good.

29.   Devised by thrifty cooks as a way to recycle stale bread, bread pudding has been traced to Colonial times.

30.   First it was bread pudding.