Frugal Grocery Shopping – Uses For Stale Bread

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Easy Bread Pudding Recipe And Other Uses For Stale Bread

You shop very carefully for all your food and make sure you get the best price. When something doesn’t get eaten and starts to go stale it can really be distressing. But here is a frugal grocery shopping tip – sometimes recipes actually call for stale ingredients. I was first introducted to Bread Pudding when I moved to the south to go to college. Bread Pudding is  a delicous dessert that actually calls for stale bread. Here is a recipe suggestion on how to make bread pudding. This recipe for bread pudding is adapted from The Kosher Creole Cookbook by Mildred L. Covert and Sylvia P. Gerson.

Confederate Bread Pudding

6 to 8 slices stale bread

2 eggs

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup raisin

1 pint half and half

1 pint water

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon lemon extract

1 cup slightly salted water

Dip slices of stale bread in salted water until soft. Drain and place in a bowl, adding well beaten eggs, sugar and raisins.

Scald half and half combined with water, add cinnamon and lemon extract and blend. Pour over bread and fill greased pudding dish with mixture.

Set in a pan of hot water and bake in 350 degree oven for 45 minutes. Serves 6

The cookbook includes an additonal recipe for the bread pudding topping. Here is the adapted recipe for bread pudding topping.

Honey Sauce

1/3  cup butter

3 egg yolks

1 tablespoon honey

1 cup sugar

1/3 cup boiling water

Cream butter and sugar. Add slightly beaten egg yolks and water and cook over very low flame until mixture thickens. Remove from flame and add honey. Serve over bread pudding. Makes 1/2 cup.

Other uses for stale bread:

Use for french toast (you can freeze the bread and take it out later when you want to make french toast). I just beat a few eggs and about a quarter cup of milk (or half and half) and soak the bread. Then just put a little butter in the pan and fry the bread in it. Top with powdered sugar and syrup.

Use for bread crumbs – (you can freeze it and make the crumbs at a later time) tear bread into smaller pieces and process in food processor until you have the desired size bread crumbs

Use for homemade croutons - Butter or put olive oil  mixed with herbs on bread slices, cut into cubes and bake in a 350 degree oven until dry and crisp (about 45 minutes) Let cool and store in an airtight container. Use within a week or freeze up to six months.

Use to feed the birds as Mary Poppins says.

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