Bread pudding has been traced to the 11th and 12th centuries in England, as people baked this treat to use up leftover bread. Even in those times, they were thinking about not wasting food! That said, bread puddings are famously easy to put together and fit right into the Seriously Simple cooking philosophy. Today, you can find bread puddings speckled with black or white truffles and exotic cheeses for savory versions, and sweet white chocolate and colorful red and blue berries for dessert versions. The creamy, comforting dessert you see here was well-tested with many tweaks. I have tried different white chocolate varieties and recommend Valrhona, if you can find it, or Lindt. They both come in bar form. What is white chocolate? It is pale ivory in color and is made from cocoa butter, sugar, milk solids, and sometimes vanilla. There are no cocoa solids, which are found in …