Raisin Currant Rum Bread Pudding With Caramel Sauce - I Feel Like Cooking

Ingredients

• 8 cups toasted cubes of french bread, all dry, enough to fit nicely into an 11 by 7 baking dish
• 1/3 C golden raisins
• 1/4 C dried currants
• 5 eggs
• Zest from one lemon
• 2 C milk
• 1 C heavy cream
• 1 t salt
• 1/2 plus 3 T white sugar
• 1 1.5 t dark rum
• 1/4 t nutmeg (grate your own if you’d like!)
• 1/2 t cinnamon
• 1 1.5 T good vanilla extract