How to Quickly Make Fresh Bread Stale

There are as many uses for stale bread as there are for fresh! Stale bread is good for French Toast, Bread Pudding, Turkey Stuffing, even making your own bread crumbs. There's no need to spend money on someone else's stale bread, just make your own!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Bread
• Baking Sheet (optional)
• Food Processor (optional)
• Cheesecloth (optional)

1. Decide what you want to use your stale bread for. Different recipes call for different methods, some quicker than others!

2. For anything that uses cubed bread, just cut your bread into the desired size. For French Toast, use thickly sliced bread. For bread crumbs, use cubed bread to start with.

3. Place bread on a baking sheet or other pan, or on a sheet of aluminum foil. Cover loosely with cheesecloth and let it sit in a warm place overnight. Or, place pan and bread, uncovered, in an oven.

4. Turn your oven on and set it at 350 degrees. Set your timer for 30 minutes.

5. After 30 minutes, remove your bread from the oven, and you have stale bread! Proceed with your recipe!

Tips & Warnings

• If you want to make bread crumbs, you can leave it a bit longer, until it's very dry. Then either process the crumbs in your food processor (8-10 pulses with the metal blade) or put in a plastic bag and roll a bottle over it until the crumbs are as small as you want.
• Don't leave the bread in the oven much longer than 30 minutes, or you will have DRY bread, not stale bread. You want to remove some moisture, but not all the texture.

[vallain]

on 3/5/2009 I love things made with stale bread (bread pudding, French toast, breaded tomatoes). Good to know.