Stale bread uses

Evening all.

I was thinking about all the waste bread we produce in our house. Much of it goes into a pudding inspired by Mr Zig, or a a savoury dish based on the same principles. But today I got to thinking how the wife likes pizza even though my description of most commercially available pizza is not suitable for publishing. I thought about about making a dough from stale bread, and using that as a pizza base. Not tried it yet, but was wondering if anyone had any other ideas about reducing waste from stale bread, or anything else for that matter.

 

cut into cubes, fry in real butter and either fry some eggs with it or eat by itself

 

Pizza base sounds a good idea other Dave. Esp. with some baking powder added

 

make a greek garlic sauce ....

1/4 loaf of old bread (crusts removed)

soak in milk, then squeeze as much of the milk out that you can with your hands

crush 4 cloves of garlic

add the bread and garlic in a blender .... add salt and fresh ground pepper

switch the blender on, and slowly drizzle 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil

squeeze 1/2 a lemon into the sauce .... blend for a while

place the sauce in a bowl, add a sprig of fresh parsley ontop for garnishing .... place in the fridge and let it rest for an hour or 2

mix, then serve with beetroot or fried aubergene or fried marrow (the large ones)

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or make bread and butter pudding with the bread

 

for quick and easy pizza ....

cut normal slices of the bread .... (leave the crusts on)

add a teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil (spread it or drizzle it around the bread)

mix some passata (tomato stuff you buy in a box or bottle) with a bit of sugar

use the back of a tablespoon and spread that around the bread

add grated parmesan cheese

then some mozzarella (you buy the balls in liquid at Tesco) .... best is buffalo mozzarella

a few fresh sprigs of basil

add your toppings but keep it simple (don't use too many different ones)

salt, fresh ground pepper

place a teaspoon of dried oregano in the palm of your hand and crush it with your other hand, then sprinkle ontop of the pizza

place in a preheated oven (200 degrees C) for approx 8-12 minutes (until the cheese melts)

quick, cheap and easy and tastes good ... my kids love this

 

How stale are we talking, is it green stuff growing on it.
If it is just hard you can do lots with it.
Like make French Toast.
Slice it thick, let it sit overnight in a mixture of milk, eggs, little sugar, salt, nutmeg, cinnamine. It will soak up all the stuff. If you let it soak up the stuff in a glass baking sheet then the better, then pop it in the oven at 350 degrees for about one hour. Drizzle raspberry sauce over, or what ever fruit sauce you wish.

Then there is bread pudding, just google receipes.

Then there is cubes for stuffing for poultery.

Or give it to the birds.

 

Some good ideas here, as usual

 

I put some in a typewriter ribbon box & left it in the shed for months, very interesting eco system evolved. Think i was about 8 at the time.

 

i fancy a go at bread pudding my Nan allways cooked it for us and egg custards thats the only 2 cakes she made GOD REST HER SOAL the TROUBLE WITH ME I BURN TOAST!!!

 

Eggy bread

 

Cheese and Onion bread and Butter Pudding serves 4
6 oz mature cheddar cheese coarsely grated
1 large onion peeled and medium chopped
5 x 1/2inch thick slices of white bread (cut off crusts - feed to birds)
2-3oz butter
1 tbsp vegetable oil You will need a buttered ovenproof
2 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped dish 8" x 6".
3 large eggs
10fl oz milk
1 tub of double cream
sea salt and freshly ground pepper

Fry off onion and garlic in some butter and some oil until soft. Cut bread into triangles and butter them. Heat milk and cream and add beaten eggs -whisk vigorously . Pre heat oven 275f / 140c. Stack the bread - 2 triangles side by side,buttered side up. Scatter with onion and cheese behind each set of 2 and build up like this until all cheese and onion is used up. Season generously with sea salt and pepper . Finally pour over egg, milk and cream custard. Leave for 15 mins to soak in. Press down if necessary. Cook for about 40 mins. until bread points are golden brown and custard has puffed up but just set. Nice with salad ...
Enjoy xxx
Jenny namaste:WINK1:

 

Refresh it, either in the microwave, the oven or freeze it when, after thawing it will be soft again and ideal for toast.

Turn it into fresh breadcrumbs and freeze them or use them as a crumble topping mixed with sugar.

Make ...
Eggy bread
Crutons
Apple charlotte
Bread pudding
Bread and butter pudding
Bruschetta

And ... if you've still got some left, dry it off in a slow oven and crush it up for breadcrumbs and store in something like a large coffee jar and use for coating foods, or sprinkle some on fish, cottage or shepherd's pie, pasta bakes
Mix some with sugar and toast in gently in the oven for a crunchy topping on stewed fruit or ice-cream.

As you might guess, I never throw away stale bread nor indeed have I ever bought one of those horrible little packets of breadcrumbs.

 

First and foremost has to be to tackle the fact that you have leftover bread in the first instance. So, is it because you are simply buying more than meets your needs? Are you buying uncut, or sliced? What do you tend to buy it for? Sandwiches for work/lunch; toast for breakfast?
You could freeze half the loaf when you get it home/bake it/however you get it and that would reduce a degree of wastage in the initial stage.
Bear in mind that you can premake certain sandwiches and freeze them; so, make a batch and freeze ahead. Remove from the freezer at breakfast and they should be good for eating come lunchtime.

Some great suggestions in the above posts (and don't forget treacle tart! )

 

I love bread sauce and stuffing with my roast chicken. Blitzed bread stored in 4oz bags and kept in the freezer are there when you need to make it up on the day. Plenty of recipes in Google for both items. My mum said "never throw away bread". I don't - it is the precious staff of life,
Jenny

 

Love the idea of cheese and onion bread pudding - have to give that one a go!

If any bread is left between us humans and one of our dogs (needs carbs to help support his slightly faulty digestive system), I breadcrumb it and freeze in bags or tubs. It generally "free-flows" from the freezer, and I use it in my meatball recipe, for quickly knocking up a stuffing recipe - I'd forgotten Treacle Tart - food from heaven!