Bread Pudding with Vanilla Sauce

Since we make our own sandwich bread, we occasionally are left with the stale ends of bread that doesn't get eaten before a new loaf is baked. Usually, our hens benefit and get an extra treat, but when I accidentally botched an entire loaf by dropping it right out of the oven, I couldn't bring myself to give the chickens the whole thing. Enter: Bread Pudding. It's so simple but the first time I told my kids I was serving it to them, they first scrunched up their nose...then they dove right in and e...