Warm bread pudding with cinnamon and rum sauce is the perfect comfort food for a rainy day—and the first thing Bryan Washington baked for his parents after he came out to them.
Everyone kept bread in his pantry. It didn’t need to be fresh—even better if it wasn’t. Stale bread sopped up more batter, giving the pudding a forgiving crunch. Some cream, a couple teaspoons of cinnamon, and a handful of basic utensils, and you’ve orchestrated a minor symphony of sweetness. It’s comforting to know that you can take an armful of leftovers and create something that’ll change your whole fucking day.
But I honestly couldn’t tell you the first time I made bread pudding on my own. I know that the first rounds were a gooey, lumpy mishmash. The filling wasn’t nearly as sweet as it needed it to be. My parents accepted their kid’s new ambition as a half-assed baker, and their friends accepted it, too, at cookouts and watch parties, where they nursed Red Stripes and Shiners. None of us had a lexicon for the queerness that I was already, by then, well aware would come to define me.
So I kept baking for the rest of my years at home, until I moved out to find my own, and the dish became creamier, more sumptuous, preferably laced with white chocolate, and doused with a sauce of condensed milk. Bread pudding was the first thing that I baked after I came out to my parents: one batch, for myself , and, later, one for my mother, scalding and soaked in coconut milk splashed with rum.
There’s something to be said about the role of queer bakers: we often end up providing comfort to those who may not have given it to us. Bread pudding was the dessert that I cooked, a few months back, for family members whom I hadn’t seen in ages. And it made sense that we’d seek this certainty, given the tentative relationships we were wading through—but before they’d even dropped their jackets, we were already cutting slices, dribbling sauce into each bowl.
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