Surprisingly Practical Ways to Use up Old Bread
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Take a slice of bread and place it in a pan with water, . Leave it overnight in a freshly-painted room. It removes the odors. The next day, toss the bread in your trash.
Stale bread is best used to give the chickens a treat! The hens love it.
I'm amazed this wasn't first! Put a slice in the cookie jar. It keeps the cookies moist and fresh, kinda like the brown sugar tip.
I am not sure exactly what stale bread is. I go to a day-old bread store where I can buy perfectly good loaves of whole wheat bread for less than one-third the grocery store cost. I keep half a dozen such loaves in my freezer, and I take out slices as needed. Toasted, it is very much as good as the fresh slices would be. I have never been quite sure why Americans turn their collective noses up at bread more than one day old. Is that the definition of stale bread? Where I came from, wasting food is tantamount to a sacrilege.
A slice of white bread dropped in a deep fryer until crisp will freshen the oil.
Bread pudding is they way to go for stale sliced, or day old italian loaf. Italian bread or French bread is too much to eat in one sitting for me, and I don't find it that edible the day after so I save the breads to make a bread pudding.
stale bread can clean patent leather shoes. Make sure that the bread is still soft. wipe over the shoes, leaves a beautiful shine.
Dry, crumb in blender or food processor. Dry again. Don't toast. Crumb again. Repeat till it is like flour. Use as coating for chicken instead of flour.
I break up my stale bread and put it in the freezer. I use it when I make stuffing or need bread crumbs for topping a casserole..
I learned from my mother,to toast stale bread slices, and then grind them for use as breading. spiced can be added as needed.