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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Using bread as an ingredient
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Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 10:54:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 25 10:54:16 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 06:34:34 EDT
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I would like to solicit either recipes or general suggestions for the
use of already-baked and leftover bread, either stale or fresh, in
main dishes, casseroles, or vegetable concoctions. I am NOT interested
in dessert recipes; bread pudding is the common usage here (my wife
has an old family recipe for chocolate bread pudding that is great --
the tradition in her family, back on the farm, was to make a crock of 
this pudding and a crock of whipped cream, then stuff yourself until
you bloated).

What I am looking for is ways to use leftover bread, including rye,
wheat, and other non-sweet variety breads, as the carbohydrate 
ingredient instead of rice, potatoes, or suchlike in a main dish,
or adding it for thickening or texture to vegetables, or maybe
making it into a dough for crusts or toppings. It is sort of
common hereabouts to use white bread in cooked tomatoes, for example.

I tried something in this line as an experiment last night. I took
about 8 slices of leftover rye bread and diced them. I prepared two
cups of chicken boullion (I would have used beef, but chicken was
all I could find), and added to it some dried mixed vegetables and
dried minced onion, garlic powder, tabasco, and worcestershire sauce.
I mixed in the bread, and stirred it into a sort of mush. I then was
going to cook some ground beef and layer it in a casserole, but 
couldn't find the beef I thought I had, so threw in some leftover
cooked sloppy-joe (basically flavored ground beef), stirred it all
together, and put it in a loaf pan. It would have been better to
bake it in a regular oven, to get it crusty, but it is hot now, so
I microwaved it for a while. 

It was edible, but nothing fantastic. I'm going to try frying the 
leftover bit as a patty to see how that works. Anyway, I solicit
your postings as to this sort of thing. We seem to continually
have half-loaves of bread left until we feed them to the birds;
I'd like to get some good out of these.

Will Martin