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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

"Lost Bread"

The year I lived in France I bought a LOT of baguettes. My husband and my oldest son especially loved it when I had a fresh baguette in the house and they could take a crisp wonderful sandwich to work or school. They loved them so much, that sometimes I bought too many at a time. The problem with that is that French baguettes become hard quite fast and I didn't know what to do with the leftovers. I threatened that I would have to quit buying if we couldn't use them up consistently. The mournful faces were too much for me! I began a list of all the things I could do with hard baguettes! The French call this "pain perdu" or lost bread. You wonder where we got our wonderful recipe for French Toast as we call it? It came from "pain perdu"! They take the stale or hard bread, soak it in eggy milk and bake or fry it and Voila! a delicious breakfast. This is only one of the marvelous things I did in France and still continue to do with lost bread. Here are a few more ideas:

Ways to use “lost bread”
    1. French Toast
    2. Toast to dip in Hot Chocolate
    3. Bread crumbs
    4. Bread pudding
    5. Meatloaf
    6. Fondue
    7. Stuffing
    8. Croutons
    9. French Bread Pizza
    10. Garlic Toast
    11. Cube for under gravies such as sausage, tuna or chipped beef
Since I have discovered and shared with many of you the wonderful recipe for Aritsian Bread in 5 minutes a day (see http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/). I have continued to have wonderful crusty breads, but find I need this list now just as much as that when I lived that wonderful year in the Alps!
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  1. GrandmaBevJune 7, 2010 at 7:42 AM

    Lots of good ideas for using bread. I find we don't go through very much bread now that all our kids are gone.

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  2. MuttiJanuary 23, 2011 at 6:24 PM

    The Italians have a bread soup that is delicious. Big chunks of lost bread in a wonderful broth or cream... If I can find the recipe I will post it. They serve on special occasions at Carino's restaurant. Yummy.

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