Often, the excuse is "It's gone hard!" The reason why bread goes a little firm after two or three days is loss of water. A simple cure for that is to put the bread into a microwave oven for 30 seconds. The heat makes the bread absorb water from the atmosphere and it will be soft enough to be toasted.
If you want a hard crust on your old bread then put the bread into your oven alongside whatever else you are cooking. Don't waste gas on just a piece of bread.
You can also make breadcrumbs and use the crumbs in various recipes.
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2 comments:
if it is a roll or a french stick, wet your hand, rub it all over the bread and then put it in the oven with you dinner. it will re-crisp and become soft again. I learnt that in france.
We stick our ends of loaf in the blender. No one eats them after we cut them off the loaf so they would just be thrown otherwise.
They make great crumbs for coating fish or adding to bolognais or for a cheapo crumble topping.
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