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What Is Stale bread and How Can I Use It?

Wondering what to do with stale bread? This guide covers how to pick it, cook it, store it, and swap it, plus 6 recipes to put it to work.

In Chinese:
新鲜的面包
British (UK) term:
Stale bread
en français:
pain rassis
en español:
pan duro

Recipes using stale bread

There are 6 recipes that contain this ingredient.

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Semmelkratzet (Semmelschmarren)

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Semmelschmarren: a traditional German-Austrian torn pancake made from stale bread soaked in egg custard with raisins, pan-fried in butter, and dusted with cinnamon sugar.

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Lemon Barbecued Meat Loaves

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Lemon barbecued meat loaves: 6 individual beef chuck loaves basted with a tangy ketchup sauce spiced with allspice, cloves, and dry mustard, each topped with a fresh lemon slice. Ready in 1 hour.

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Agliata Per Pasta

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Italian walnut-garlic sauce with toasted walnuts, parsley, bread, and olive oil blended into thick paste: traditional Ligurian agliata tossed with your favorite pasta.

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Smoked Chicken Hens

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Whole chickens stuffed with sausage dressing and smoked over charcoal for 5 hours with a wine-herb water pan. Louisiana-style backyard smoking at its finest. Serves 8.

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Bread Pudding with Raisin & Pecan

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Raisin pecan bread pudding loaded with fruit cocktail and a vanilla-butternut custard. A nostalgic Southern bread pudding that uses up stale bread in 90 minutes.

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Roasted Vegetable Gazpacho

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Roasted vegetable gazpacho with oven-charred tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, and garlic blended with sherry vinegar and stale bread into a silky chilled soup. Deeper and smokier than traditional gazpacho.

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