The first recipe is for 'Wheaties'. During the war when breakfast cereals were hard to come by housewives made Wheaties by cutting old bread into cubes and drying it in a warm oven until slightly crisp. Wheaties were served with cold milk and taste somewhat like Shredded Wheat.
My second recipe for using up old bread is bread pudding:
Ingredients:
Old bread
Sugar to taste
1 Egg
Currants, raisins or sultanas to taste
Method:
Break the bread into pieces place in a bowl and cover in water, leave to soak for 10 minutes
Drain off the water mix in sugar cinnamon, currants and egg
Place in a greased baking dish and bake in the oven on 190 centigrade of 40 minutes or until golden brown and a knife placed in the centre comes out clean.
*For an extra yummy taste add a nip of Madeira to the mix!
We used to eat this all the time when I was growing up in the sixties. It is really yummy hot - a bit like a light version of Christmas pudding- but a bit stodgy when you had to take it to school cold the next day for playlunch.
ReplyDeleteI love bread pudding my hubby is a baker and the bakery he used to work at made it to use up their old bread. Its so yummy I don't even mind it when its cold and stodgy!
DeletePlus, you can put about anything in it... some extra jam, crumble up part of a chocolate bar.... it's fantastic what a little heat from the oven can do.
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