Food Tips & Info > BreadFebruary 11, 2011

Uses for Leftover Bread

I am looking for ideas for using leftover bread, either slices or bits and pieces. I already make croutons and dry and crush as bread crumbs. What else?

By Anne-Marie from NM

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By
02/18/2011

Stale bread slices are always great for French Toast, as they are drier and soak up more of the egg mixture without falling apart.

By
02/15/2011

I save it until I have enough for bread pudding. There are many recipes on line for this.

By
02/15/2011

Thank you to all responses and your suggestions as well as link to previous archives messages.

By
02/12/2011

My mother would butter it, cube it, and put it in stewed tomatoes, with a touch of sugar. She would stir it in lightly when the tomatoes were hot and bubbly. It was actually real good. You can do this with fried apples, too.
For stuffing mix, put the dried bread cubes in a big, resealable bad. Add dehydated onions and herbs, and powdered chicken or beef boullon. When you want stuffing, make it like you do Stove Top. It's better than store bought.

By
02/12/2011

You can make breakfast bread pudding as well as savoury or dessert. Or Place buttered slices over cooked vegetable or veg and meat then sprinkly cheese on top and put in oven. French toasts with egg, dry off in oven on low heat, use as melba toast Alternative uses, use bread rolled up in balls to clean off marks from wallpaper or cut into fingers to clean venetian blinds.

By
02/12/2011

Feed the birds!

By
02/11/2011

I think someone asked this a while ago. I think there are a few archives about it. Anyway, you can always make bread pudding. And I think there's a recipe on here for bread soup (it's an Italian soup.)

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Instead of throwing out leftover bread, including all the heels of bread that my family does not like, here are several suggestions I use.


Don't throw out another piece of stale bread, or buns! Store in your refrigerator, and it will stay fresh for a good 2 weeks. Store in your freezer, (double bag it to prevent freezer burn) and it will stay fresh for several months.

Take out only what you need, and it will thaw out in about an hour (average) at room temperature. Now if you do have stale bread, lay it out on a cookie sheet, and let it completely dry out, until hard. You may have to turn it over at least once. (I do mine in the oven, with the oven "off". It usually takes 24-48 hours)

Once dried, store in a plastic bag in a cool, dry place. Crumble and use in such things as meat loaf, meat balls or stuffing. Without the moisture, it will last for several months.

By jg2851 from Shepherd, MI


RE: Uses for Leftover Bread

If you are a bad cook like I am, crumble the stale bread and scatter it where the birds can get it. (05/04/2010)

By tomatohanger


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