No-waste stale bread recipes: 24 ways to use old bread in your cooking

Some kitchen hacks for no-waste cooking, even if they are not historical. This video shows: 1. Panzanella: a nutritious Tuscan bread salad with tomatoes, onion, basil, olive oil, a little balsamic vinegar and salt. Who likes can add some chili pepper, too. 2. Bread patties: Stale bread can also be used to make inexpensive and tasty bread patties. For a more elaborate version tuck a piece of cheese inside the patties before frying. 3. Capuns are a kind of Swiss dumplings enriched with dried meat and wrapped in chard leaves. As with other kinds of knödel, you can prepare the dough including stale bread. 4. A sop is maybe the easiest and oldest way to use old bread: It is cut or torn into pieces and then soaked in a liquid, like broth or wine or milk. The dish I am preparing here is the provencal aïgo boulido ("boiled water" - what an understatement!). 5. Ymerdrys is a Danish mix of black bread crumbles with brown sugar that is eaten on ymer, a Danish milk product similar to buttermilk, alternatively on yogurt. 6. Fattoush is a Levantine salad that is prepared from dry, toasted flatbread, vegetables and herbs. 7. Bread tiramisù: The mouth-watering Italian dessert is usually made with ladyfingers. If need arises, the ladyfingers can be replaced with stale white bread or cake and, behold, the result is really great! 8. The Spanish garlic soup ajoblanco is based mainly on stale white bread and ground almonds, adding garlic, olive oil, a dash of white vinegar and salt. It is served cold and is often garnished with grapes. 9. Czech dumplings are mostly made of stale bread. They are cooked rolled in a kitchen towel, cut into slices with a thread and served with roast meat and sauce. 10. Pasta con la mollica, pasta with breadcrumbs, is a traditional Southern Italian poor man's food that does not need to hide behind the most exquisite pasta creations. 11. White sauce: Making gravy from stale bread is a tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages, when bread crumbs were the most common thickener. 12. Salade lyonnaise with croûtons is a mouth watering French salad consisting of green salad with crunchy bread croutons, crispy bacon, mustard vinaigrette and poached egg. 13. Polpette di pane: These Apulian bread balls with cheese are absolutely gorgeous. 14. Bread gratin: Slices of stale bread can be layered with vegetables and other ingredients of your choice, moistened with a little broth or milk and cheese - ready is a superbe inexpensive meal. Feel free to improvise according to your taste and supplies! 15. French toast: savoury & sweet: Dust them with sugar and cinnamon. You can also prepare savoury French toasts by adding grated parmesan cheese to the milk and egg, serving them with fresh herbs. 16. Pappa al pomodoro is an easy Tuscan bread sop made from tomato sauce, olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper and basil. It can be served hot or cold. 17. Bread soups made from soaked bread are traditionally found wherever bread is eaten. I have chosen this creamy recipe from the Alpine region. 18. Bread chips: Toast thin slices of old bread in the oven with a little olive oil and sprinkled with some salt (and other spices or herbs) to make crispy bread chips. 19. New from old: You can also add old bread to your bread dough and bake tasty fresh bread rolls. 20. Vegetables such as zucchini, eggplants, peppers, etc. can be stuffed with a mixture of bread crumbs, their own pulp, garlic, olive oil, grated cheese and herbs and baked in the oven. 21. Gazpacho: The preparation of the famous Andalusian vegetable soup begins with soaking stale bread, to which mediterranean summer vegetables, olive oil and a dash of vinegar are added and pounded in a mortar or pureed with a blender. Gazpacho is served cold. 22. French onion soup is topped with a slice of bread, covered with cheese and quickly gratinated in the oven, thus creating a hearty and warming winter meal. 23. Breadcrumbs are perhaps the easiest way to use stale bread, by grating it finely. They can be used in many ways, for example to thicken sauces or, as in this recipe, to bread fish, meat or vegetables. To do this, dip the food morsels in flour, dip in beaten egg, then roll in breadcrumbs and finally fry them. 24. From the many bread puddings around the world, I have chosen the Egyptian Umm Ali ("Ali's mother"). To prepare Umm Ali, cut stale bread or puff pastry into small pieces, mix with pistachios, raisins and sugar, cover with milk, sprinkle with cinnamon and bake in the oven until the surface is golden brown. You can find more recipes in my cookbooks "GARUM: Recipes from the Past“, "From Eden to Jerusalem: Recipes from the Time of the Bible“, or "VEGETUS: Vegetarian Recipes from the Past“. Or, for quick and easy recipes adapted to tiny kitchens, "Cooking on the Move: 100 simple gourmet recipes for mobile kitchens". Music: Josef Suk, Serenade, Op 6 (public domain, YouTube audio library)

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