Apple-Bread Pudding

Photo: flickr user Charles Haynes

Ingredients

1 loaf sliced white bread, crusts removed

1 cup sugar

4 teaspoons ground cinnamon

6 green apples (2 lb.)

1/4 cup butter

4 cups grated fresh white bread crumbs (about 12 slices, crusts removed)

Preparation

Lightly butter inside of a 2 quart Charlotte mold or a straight sided Pyrex bowl. Cut 6 slices bread in half, use to line inside of mold, over-lapping. Using a heart shape cookie cutter, cut 6 hearts from bread slices, to fit in bottom of mold. Combine sugar and cinnamon. Pare, core and thinly sliced apples, should measure 5 1/2 cups. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In bottom of mold layer 1 1/3 cups