Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption
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jettejette
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Stale breadSince baby bear went off to uni, on occasions I find myself with the end of a loaf that's going a bit dry - we make our own so it doesn't last as long as the plastic wrapped variety.
I never mind as I turn it into breadcrumbs or croutons which go into the freezer, or bread pudding for the cake tin.
This morning I started wondering whether there were any other quick and easy things I could be doing?
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wellington womble
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Bread and butter pudding? You can make it sweet or savoury I beleive. Borrow a small child to feed ducks? Treacle tart (perhaps not every week!) bread sauce (especially bread sauce. It's my favourite)
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Nick
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Certainly bread and butter pudding gets my vote. Takes any bread and freezes well.
Except the rhubarb vodka version. That gets eaten too quickly.
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Andrea
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If I haven't enough for a full on bread and butter pud I chop up small and bulk omelettes with it.
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Nick
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Use a ramekin and make individual ones?
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jettejette
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Mmmmm! Bread and butter sounds good.
Not sure about the ducks, don't they say you shouldn't feed ducks bread anymore -or is that just white bread?
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dpack
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i tend to use it as crumb for gratin etc but my best practice is slice half the loaf and freeze the other half as a lump.
as i can be a bit random at times that does not always happen and one of the best ways i have found with almost dried (but not mouldy)bread is to make melba toast which is nice and if then dried some more will keep for use as crisp bread
since i started using a sourdough starter for breads and pancakes little (or a lot)and often seems to work
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oldish chris
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bread puddingCrusts and other bits of stale bread should be thoroughly dried, they will then last for ages. When 20 slices, or equivalent, have been collected you make a bread pudding:
soak the bread in water until soggy,
squeeze out as much water as poss,
mix in some fat, traditionally suet, I mix in about 250gm cheapest marg.
mix in some sugar, you know, enough,
add two or so teaspoons of ground cinnamon, one of mixed spice,
bung in half a packet od dried mixed fruit,
bung in the best part of a packet of sultanas
empty into a backing tray,
put in a hottish oven until you can smell it in the next room,
sorted.
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