Buttermilk Cornbread Pudding

There’s nothing like piping hot cornbread fresh out of the oven and slathered with butter. Leftover cornbread is never quite the same; reheating cold cornbread usually just dries it out (though leftovers do make great croutons; see my Vidalia Onion Soup. This rich bread pudding will have you craving leftovers. One of our regular customers tells me this reminds him of the cornbread crumbled into a bowl of milk that he ate instead of cereal when he was a kid