stale bread?

Question

If I make croutons with it, how long will they keep?

Any idea of waht else we could do with it please?

Answer 1

If you make croutons with your stale bread they should keep for at least 2 weeks, just keep them in a sealed container in a dry space. You could also grate the bread and use as bread crumbs. Then, you could mix the bread crumbs with some fresh herbs and crust it on some chicken, or whatever else. Herb encrusted chicken! Maybe a little dijon vinaigrette, tasty!

Answer 2

It depends on if you brush the bread with butter or olive oil or just toast it plain. Butter will go rancid quicker than the oil, toasting it plain will last a long time in an airtight container as long as the croutons are thoroughly dry. I put crusts and old stale bread in the food processor and put it into gallon size freezer bags and keep it in the freezer for whenever I need bread crumbs. My mom used to dry bread intentionally, then we'd break it up with our hands and make our Thanksgiving stuffing with it, another option.

Answer 3

Yes, you can make croutons and can use for soups, salads or just about anything that u want to make crunchy and that would be the easiest use, but if you happen to love cooking & don't mind doing some work for your taste buds then

You can soak the bread in water & squeeze the water out, add to it boiled potato depends how much bread is left & also if you have tit bits of left overs like pasta anything but not raw vegetables or raw meat . Add salt & black pepper to taste little paprika & very small chopped onions ...... Mash it all up well that it kind of forms a dough make oval shaped patties & deep fry them you will love this snack.

Answer 4

If you break or cut up the stale bread, and toast it, the croutons will last for up to a week if you keep them in an airtight container. They'll last longer in the fridge or freezer, obviously, but they'll get a bit soggy that way. You'll have to re-toast them.

You can also toast your stale bread (dry it out slowly, in a warm oven...like 200 degrees), and put it through the food processor. Now you've got bread crumbs, which freeze very well.

Answer 5

You could make as a main course cheese pudding - 4oz breadcrumbs, add 4oz grated cheese, 2 eggs, add some mixed herbs and them pour over half a pint or so of warm milk and stir to a porridge consistency. Bake in the oven for 45 mins on about 180-190 degrees C. For a sweet rather than savoury there is (As mentioned) bread and butter pudding - there is a variation on the traditional recipe with using marmalade instead of fruit.

Answer 6

You could use if for Garlic Soup, or Bread Pudding here's a recipe
Ingredients
200g/8oz bread, preferably stale, crusts removed
250ml/½ pint milk
150g/6oz mixed dried fruit
50g/2oz mixed peel, chopped
50g/2oz soft brown sugar
50g/2oz suet
2 tsp mixed spice
1 large egg, beaten
ground nutmeg (optional)
icing sugar or caster sugar to decorate

Method
1. Break bread into small pieces and place in a mixing bowl.
2. Pour over the milk and leave to soak for 30 minutes, then beat out the lumps with a fork to form a smooth mixture.
3. Add the fruit, mixed peel, sugar, suet, spice and egg and mix well, cover with a damp cloth and leave to soak for a couple of hours.
4. Pour the mixture into a greased 18cm/7in square tin, smooth the top and sprinkle with nutmeg if liked.
5. Bake at 180C/350F/Gas4 for about 1-1½ hours until browned. Cool in the tin.
6. Cut the pudding into squares and sprinkle with caster or icing sugar. Alternatively serve hot with custard or cream.

Answer 7

As "duck bread", you take it to the park with you and toss it into the lake for the ducks ... the water softens it

for Apple Brown Betty
into a buttered casserole dish
first layer: buttered bread crumbs
second layer: apple sauce
third layer; buttered crumbs,
etc
end with crumbs on top
(may spice as you wish)

make croutons by brushing cubes with olive oil and dry herbs, s&p ... toast in 350' oven for 20 mins, cool ...if they keep very long, it will be because you need to improve your technique! this time add Parmesan ... and they won't keep at all!! (2 weeks, ok? the ones you buy in the store have preservatives ...)

you should keep them in a jar if you make crumbs and use them for breading Wiener Schnitzel, chicken, or chicken-fried steak ... and they can be used for making dumplings for chicken soup ...

Answer 8

Make croutons. decrease up the bread into 0.5 to 3/4 inch cubes, so as which you have 2 or 3 cups. soften approximately 0.5 a stick of butter in a extensive prying pan. upload some garlic powder and a sprint black pepper. Stir the bread around over medium warmth and get it properly lined. save stirring and shifting the cubes around till they're browned. you are able to shop them in a ziplock bag and that they are going to stay good for perhaps 2 weeks. they're so plenty extra appropriate than shop offered croutons. you additionally could make french toast. a million/2 cup milk, 2 eggs, some vanilla and cinnamon. cook dinner devour area in quite butter till browned,.

Answer 9

Bread crumbs which can be used in a lot of different recipes.
Croutons...once baked and sealed in an air tight container or bag should last at least a week.

There are quite few recipes for stale bread..here is a link

http://italianfood.about.com/od/favoriterecipes/tp/aa071205.htm

Answer 10

Bread pudding, queen of puddings with the breadcrumbs and actually anything that requires breadcrumbs as it is best to make them with stale bread. Try Southern fried chicken too.