Stale Bread - what to do with it?

Feed to ducks. It's amazingly satisfying.

i just lay the buttered bread in a dish and cover with a few eggs milk or cream and sugar mixed up leave it for 10 minutes for the bread to soak then sprinkle with brown sugar sultanas and cinnamon and bake till golden it comes out lovely every time. have a dig through your cupboards and see what you can find, you can throw most things in, we had coconut bread and butter pudding the other night with leftover coconut milk and dessicated coconut sprinkled over the top and it was polished off in 2 mins:D

Bread isn't good for ducks, it also makes their poo high in nitrogen, which is toxic to water, so please don't feed left over bread to ducks - much better in a bread pudding

225g bread
275ml milk
50g butter (melted)
75g brown sugar
2 level teaspoons mixed spice
1 beaten egg
175g mixed fruit
grated rind of half orange

Pre-heat oven to gas mark 4, 350F or 180C.
Grease a 2-21/2 pint baking dish.
Begin by breaking the bread into suitable size peices (I usually just pop it into a food processor and process til quite small). Pour the milk over and let stand for 30 mins.
Now add the melted butter, sugar, mixed spice and beaten egg. Beat well then mix in the fruit and orange rind. Spread into the baking dish and bake for 1 - 11/4 hrs. I like mine served warm with a little sprinkling of sugar on top. But if you like it cold it's just as good like that.

dixie_dean wrote:

Who cares about the ducks though? Its really satisfying for me.

Can't believe anybody could mean that.............must be a sick joke

ok bread pud recipe its my own and i used to sell it very sucsessfully, i hate it so never tried it. But it was the talk of the town i promise

you will need a greased vic sandwhich tin

brown bread is best but white will do
half a pint milk
cup of mixed fruit
half cup sugar caster
2 eggs
and a good pinch of cinamon

beat the eggs and milk together, then add sugar and fruit.
break the bread into good size chunks, crusts are great.
and just mix the whole lot together till you get a nice lumpy wettish texture
better to have it a bit wet comes out not so heavy and stodgy and most of the goo runs out the bottom of the tin anyway ( makesure tin on grease proof paper to save your oven) press it all down in tin.
Bake it in middle of pre heated oven for 190 for about 30 mins if its still gooish in the middle once youve let it cool in tin (still cooks when left standing in own heat) all the better its not stodgy or to heavy to eat then.
then just sprinkle with caster suger