INGREDIENTS

1. 12slices your favouritecinnamon raisin bread
2. 1largepear, peeled,cored and sliced
3. 3tablespoonsdried cherriesor cranberries
4. 4tablespoons choppedhazelnuts
5. 3tablespoonsbrown sugar
6. 1teaspoonpure vanilla extract
7. 6largeeggs, beaten
8. 1 1/2cupsheavy creamor half-and-half
9. 4tablespoonspowdered sugar

DIRECTIONS

1. Lightly butter a baking pan.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3. Set a hot water bath into oven.
4. Line the baking dish with the cinnamon bread cut into strips, or cubes.
5. Layer on top of the bread, pear, cherries, and nuts.
6. Beat the eggs in a large bowl with vanilla, and brown sugar, and the cream.
7. Pour over bread fuit layer.
8. Let sit for five minutes or so.
9. Sprinkle the entire top with the powdered icing sugar.
10. Place into the hot water bath, and bake in oven until golden and set.
11. about 30 minutes.
12. A hot water bath is a large pan (bigger than your baking dish) with hot water placed in oven, with a rack.
13. then the baking pan is placed on the rack, and the hot water should come half way up the sides.