This post was originally published on January 23, 2007. It has been updated once since then.
When I first heard about Leftover Tuesdays I immediately thought what a great idea! 
If there’s one thing that I’ve learnt over the past few months (thanks to Rachael Ray) is that leftovers don’t have to be reheated facsimiles of their former selves. This may have been common sense to many people but it was like a choir of angels from the heavens for me. Ever since then I rejoice at leftovers and my creativity has really grown in leaps and bounds. This time around I had SO many ideas for Leftover Tuesday that I had to narrow them down. Can you imagine? 
In the end I decided to combine the best of two worlds. You see, I had quite a few leftover Goolab Jamoon in the freezer from my last batch, and I also had my (at the time spanking new) Reviewer’s Copy of The Good Home Cookbook: More Than 1000 Classic American Recipes
I thought why not make a breadpudding from it but use my Goolab Jamoon instead of bread. Voila! Goolab Jamoon Pudding GooJaPu? 
Although I used Goolab Jamoon in this recipe I imagine that it would also work quite well with leftover glazed doughnuts, or even just plain buttered bread The final result was very light and custardy, and delicate in sweetness. The cardamom in the Goolab Jamoons also added a nice contrast to the milkiness It only took a few hours for the whole thing to be consumed
Goolab Jamoon Pudding
(adapted from a recipe in The Good Home Cookbook: More Than 1000 Classic American Recipes
INGREDIENTS:
3 large eggs
3 1/2 cups milk
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cups cubed Goolab Jamoon/glazed doughnuts/plain bread (I didn’t have enough goolab jamoon so I used bits of stale bread too )
3/4 cup raisins
cinnamon
METHOD:
1. Preheat the oven to 325F.
2. Grease a 2-quart baking dish
3. In a medium bowl, beat the eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla extract, and salt until well blended.
4. Mix in the cubes and raisins.
5. Pour into the prepared baking dish and sprinkle the top with cinnamon
6. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until the pudding is puffed up and brown and a knife inserted into the center comes out clean
Serves 6
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I think your “bread pudding” looks a tad different from mine. Or should I say mom’s.
Hmm. I wonder if it has anything to do with mom’s predilection for grinding everything…so we’d process the gulab jamoon. Or am I imagining things?
Also, if you’re making regular bread pudding and you like the cardamon you could just put in cardamon you know…don’t need gulab jamoon with it! :-p
Also.
Hmm I say cardamon you say cardamom…I checked online dictionaries to see if I was crazy (quite possible) but it seems both are acceptable.
*relief*
I think your “bread pudding” looks a tad different from mine. Or should I say mom’s.
Hmm. I wonder if it has anything to do with mom’s predilection for grinding everything…so we’d process the gulab jamoon. Or am I imagining things?
Also, if you’re making regular bread pudding and you like the cardamon you could just put in cardamon you know…don’t need gulab jamoon with it! :-p
Also.
Hmm I say cardamon you say cardamom…I checked online dictionaries to see if I was crazy (quite possible) but it seems both are acceptable.
*relief*
we always leave our bread pudding in cubes
and sure i could add cardamom (cardamon 
) to plain bread pudding but that would defeat the purpose of using up my LEFTOVERS this time around wouldn’t it 
no no
i didn’t mean add cardamon to your bread for *now*
i mean for next time you make bread pudding and you don’t have the gulab jamoon and you only have plain ordinary bread
i must ask mom if we use cubes
hmmmmm
lolziez
i think i will add it the next time around 
it’s a fun flavour 
yes ask your mom 
hehehe 
this was a nice variation though 
oh i’m sure it was
mom have whole wheat bread waiting to make us bread pudding
i cant sleep
i dunno why
eyes hurting so much they want to sleep
and i have to get up in a few hours (well half hour to pray) but few hours to work
my new mattress was so comfy when i get it…now same old same old restless me
oh i’m sure it was
mom have whole wheat bread waiting to make us bread pudding
i cant sleep
i dunno why
eyes hurting so much they want to sleep
and i have to get up in a few hours (well half hour to pray) but few hours to work
my new mattress was so comfy when i get it…now same old same old restless me
that’s how i felt about my big fluffy pricesmart pillow
but if you don’t get some sleepy you risk being a zombie
yum, whole wheat bread pudding rulez
will she wake up and pray with you too? 
i should sleep too
in a sec… prepping cookbooks to send out … 
?
haven’t forgotten your packages!! what kinda music you like
that’s how i felt about my big fluffy pricesmart pillow
but if you don’t get some sleepy you risk being a zombie
yum, whole wheat bread pudding rulez
will she wake up and pray with you too? 
i should sleep too
in a sec… prepping cookbooks to send out … 
?
haven’t forgotten your packages!! what kinda music you like
mom says yes she food processes it
she says her mother used a mill
weird huh?
lots of weird food eccentricities get passed down straight from my grandmother and who knows who else
we all wake up in the morning (dawn) to pray
some of us sometimes don’t really wake up…zombie
mom says yes she food processes it
she says her mother used a mill
weird huh?
lots of weird food eccentricities get passed down straight from my grandmother and who knows who else
we all wake up in the morning (dawn) to pray
some of us sometimes don’t really wake up…zombie
i sure i replied to this but i can’t find it
music? sounds nice loud? anything? wait…no hiphop r&b :-p
i sure i replied to this but i can’t find it
music? sounds nice loud? anything? wait…no hiphop r&b :-p
hehe
sorted 
*ponders ponders*:D
i was akismeted!!!
akismet like it back on steroids
we always leave our bread pudding in cubes
and sure i could add cardamom (cardamon 
) to plain bread pudding but that would defeat the purpose of using up my LEFTOVERS this time around wouldn’t it 
I think your “bread pudding” looks a tad different from mine. Or should I say mom’s.
Hmm. I wonder if it has anything to do with mom’s predilection for grinding everything…so we’d process the gulab jamoon. Or am I imagining things?
Also, if you’re making regular bread pudding and you like the cardamon you could just put in cardamon you know…don’t need gulab jamoon with it! :-p
Also.
Hmm I say cardamon you say cardamom…I checked online dictionaries to see if I was crazy (quite possible) but it seems both are acceptable.
*relief*
we always leave our bread pudding in cubes
and sure i could add cardamom (cardamon 
) to plain bread pudding but that would defeat the purpose of using up my LEFTOVERS this time around wouldn’t it 
no no
i didn’t mean add cardamon to your bread for *now*
i mean for next time you make bread pudding and you don’t have the gulab jamoon and you only have plain ordinary bread
i must ask mom if we use cubes
hmmmmm
lolziez
i think i will add it the next time around 
it’s a fun flavour 
yes ask your mom 
hehehe 
this was a nice variation though 
oh i’m sure it was
mom have whole wheat bread waiting to make us bread pudding
i cant sleep
i dunno why
eyes hurting so much they want to sleep
and i have to get up in a few hours (well half hour to pray) but few hours to work
my new mattress was so comfy when i get it…now same old same old restless me
that’s how i felt about my big fluffy pricesmart pillow
but if you don’t get some sleepy you risk being a zombie
yum, whole wheat bread pudding rulez
will she wake up and pray with you too? 
i should sleep too
in a sec… prepping cookbooks to send out … 
?
haven’t forgotten your packages!! what kinda music you like
mom says yes she food processes it
she says her mother used a mill
weird huh?
lots of weird food eccentricities get passed down straight from my grandmother and who knows who else
we all wake up in the morning (dawn) to pray
some of us sometimes don’t really wake up…zombie
i sure i replied to this but i can’t find it
music? sounds nice loud? anything? wait…no hiphop r&b :-p
hehe
sorted 
*ponders ponders*:D
i was akismeted!!!
akismet like it back on steroids
I love the look of this pudding…I am not a fan of cinnamon but mmmmmm (I think I am the only person I know who doesn’t like cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves or star anise- the aromatics- It’s due to misuse and abuse by my mom in a lot of recipes)
Meanwhile your favorite person Nigella Lawson makes a great bread pudding hahahah (I had to throw that in)
that’s true… it’s easy to think wow if 1 pinch of this spice is awesome… 1 tablespoon must be THE MOST AWESOME
haha
nigella
actually she had a trifle that looked good once… bread pudding is one of the few things the brits have accomplished with a yum factor … go figure that involves leftovers
(waits to be beaten and flogged by Trig for that) …
that’s true… it’s easy to think wow if 1 pinch of this spice is awesome… 1 tablespoon must be THE MOST AWESOME
haha
nigella
actually she had a trifle that looked good once… bread pudding is one of the few things the brits have accomplished with a yum factor … go figure that involves leftovers
(waits to be beaten and flogged by Trig for that) …
I think it is a great idea to use your sweet treats and some bread though. I am a big fan of donuts and they are sometimes on sale so I am gonna try it one day…
I love the look of this pudding…I am not a fan of cinnamon but mmmmmm (I think I am the only person I know who doesn’t like cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves or star anise- the aromatics- It’s due to misuse and abuse by my mom in a lot of recipes)
Meanwhile your favorite person Nigella Lawson makes a great bread pudding hahahah (I had to throw that in)
I love the look of this pudding…I am not a fan of cinnamon but mmmmmm (I think I am the only person I know who doesn’t like cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves or star anise- the aromatics- It’s due to misuse and abuse by my mom in a lot of recipes)
Meanwhile your favorite person Nigella Lawson makes a great bread pudding hahahah (I had to throw that in)
that’s true… it’s easy to think wow if 1 pinch of this spice is awesome… 1 tablespoon must be THE MOST AWESOME
haha
nigella
actually she had a trifle that looked good once… bread pudding is one of the few things the brits have accomplished with a yum factor … go figure that involves leftovers
(waits to be beaten and flogged by Trig for that) …
I think it is a great idea to use your sweet treats and some bread though. I am a big fan of donuts and they are sometimes on sale so I am gonna try it one day…
Wow, great way to use up extra bread! Make bread pudding! You used glazed donuts? I never would have thought of that. I bet is worked just fine.
I’ve never heard of goolab jamoon, is it like cuban bread?
hee rachel!
and to think i went to all the trouble of linking to what it was in the post 
but oh you want me to do it again? 
fine 
www.trinigourmet.com/index.php/ole-year-offerings-2006-trinidad-goolab-jamoon-and-sarinas-passionate-mint-tea/
i didn’t used glazed doughnut, i just figured that americans have more of those around than goolab jamoon
Using donuts is a great idea Nikki. I hadn’t thought of that but they are so great on their own..they would work so well in a pudding
yum
doughnuts with icing? and jam too?
sure!
why not 
make it a SUPAH SUGARY LIME 
yum
chocolate doughnuts!
OOO! that would b good!
hee rachel!
and to think i went to all the trouble of linking to what it was in the post 
but oh you want me to do it again? 
fine 
www.trinigourmet.com/index.php/ole-year-offerings-2006-trinidad-goolab-jamoon-and-sarinas-passionate-mint-tea/
i didn’t used glazed doughnut, i just figured that americans have more of those around than goolab jamoon
Wow, great way to use up extra bread! Make bread pudding! You used glazed donuts? I never would have thought of that. I bet is worked just fine.
I’ve never heard of goolab jamoon, is it like cuban bread?
Wow, great way to use up extra bread! Make bread pudding! You used glazed donuts? I never would have thought of that. I bet is worked just fine.
I’ve never heard of goolab jamoon, is it like cuban bread?
hee rachel!
and to think i went to all the trouble of linking to what it was in the post 
but oh you want me to do it again? 
fine 
www.trinigourmet.com/index.php/ole-year-offerings-2006-trinidad-goolab-jamoon-and-sarinas-passionate-mint-tea/
i didn’t used glazed doughnut, i just figured that americans have more of those around than goolab jamoon
Using donuts is a great idea Nikki. I hadn’t thought of that but they are so great on their own..they would work so well in a pudding
yum
doughnuts with icing? and jam too?
sure!
why not 
make it a SUPAH SUGARY LIME 
yum
chocolate doughnuts!
OOO! that would b good!
YOU WENT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL?
preppie
:-p
HEY!!
aha! so you admit it!!
maybe
UWI PREP
it ruled
ha
preppies
my goodness
preppie and proud!
some of you preppies went my my secondary school so i know what i talking about!
and we were sweet as sunshine ent?
YOU WENT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL?
preppie
:-p
HEY!!
aha! so you admit it!!
maybe
UWI PREP
it ruled
ha
preppies
my goodness
preppie and proud!
some of you preppies went my my secondary school so i know what i talking about!
and we were sweet as sunshine ent?
Hi
I was wondering if this can be made with the traditional Indian Gulab Jamuns. The round ones we make in India??
Thanks
It should work Sana
Hi
I was wondering if this can be made with the traditional Indian Gulab Jamuns. The round ones we make in India??
Thanks
It should work Sana