Simple bread can be used to make a wide variety of delicious dishes, from simple toasts to exquisite sweet puddings and even cakes.
Hawaiian toast
Ingredients:
- 4 slices of wheat square bread
- 4 slices cooked ham
- 4 slices of hard cheese
- 4 rings of canned pineapple
Cooking step by step:
1. Place greased baking paper on a baking sheet and place the slices of bread on it. Top with a slice of ham, a "washer" of pineapple and a slice of cheese.
2. Bake the toast in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes, less. The cheese should melt. Place a cocktail cherry or dark olive in the center of each toast before serving. Serve hot.
French croutons
Ingredients:
- 4 slices of wheat square bread
- 150 ml milk
- 2 eggs
- butter and vegetable oil
- a pinch of grated nutmeg
- powdered sugar
Cooking in stages:
1. Shake eggs and milk with a whisk. Cut off the crusts of the bread (optional) and cut the crumb into wide strips.
2. Dip the slices in the egg and milk mass and fry in a mixture of sunflower and butter on both sides until a blush appears. Sprinkle generously with powdered sugar before serving. Serve croutons for breakfast.
Toast "Drunken Knights"
Ingredients:
- 4 slices square toaster bread
- 1 large egg
- White wine
- breadcrumbs
- vegetable oil
- jam or chocolate paste
Cooking step by step:
1. Cut the bread in half lengthwise or diagonally. Shake the egg with a whisk until fluffy. Soak the bread in wine, then dip in an egg and roll in grated wheat bread crumbs.
2. Fry toast in hot sunflower oil in a skillet until golden brown. Layer the bread slices in pairs with fruit jam or chocolate spread before serving.
Garlic toast with cheese
Ingredients:
- 4 slices of white bread
- 1/2 cup grated cheese
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1-2 teaspoons of dried or fresh chopped herbs
- a lump of butter the size of a matchbox
Cooking in stages:
1. Put the oil in a cup and place it in the microwave for half a minute to melt it. Peel the garlic, cut, remove the green center and discard. Pass the rest of the pulp through a press, stir in the butter.
2. Put baking paper on a baking sheet, and serhu - bread, grease each piece with butter, sprinkle with herbs and cheese. Place for 5 minutes in an oven preheated to 190 degrees Celsius.
Apple charlotte with bread
Ingredients:
- 3-4 apples
- 300 g of yesterday's white bread
- 1 glass of milk
- 2 eggs
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar
- ground cinnamon
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of ground wheat rusks
- 2 teaspoons of powdered sugar
Cooking step by step:
1. Combine milk, chicken eggs and granulated sugar. Cut the crusts from the loaf and cut the pulp into cubes. Pour in the milk and egg mixture and leave to soak for 25 minutes.
2. Peel apples, stalks and seeds. Cut into cubes. Combine the bread and milk mixture, apples and cinnamon. Lubricate the form with oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Lay out the bread dough, bake at 180 degrees Celsius in the oven until golden brown. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Chocolate Bread Casserole
Ingredients:
- 300 g white bread
- 1 glass of milk
- 75 g butter
- 100 g sugar
- 6 eggs
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa powder
- 40 g candied lemon peels
- a pinch of salt
How to cook in stages:
1. Cut the bread into slices and soak in milk. Remove the oil from the refrigerator first. Combine with granulated sugar and salt, when it softens, wash until foam. Introduce the egg yolks.
2. Cool the whites and beat until fluffy, combine the bread, cocoa, candied fruits and yolk mass with the whites, mix gently. Place in a greased ceramic pan and bake until eggs are cooked at 220 degrees Celsius in the oven.
Classic homemade soup croutons
Ingredients:
- 400 g white bread
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vegetable oil
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
Cooking in stages:
1. Cut the bread into 1, 5x1, 5 cm cubes. Place in a deep bowl, sprinkle with salt, sprinkle with sunflower oil and stir to distribute the butter evenly over the croutons.
2. Place sheets of baking paper on a baking sheet, spread the bread cubes and dry in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius until a blush is formed.
3. Then pour all the croutons into a large deep dish, add the chopped garlic, shake several times, cover and leave for five minutes. Serve with soup.
Pie "Bread fantasy"
Ingredients:
- 200 g toasted white bread
- 200 g sugar
- 400 g fat cottage cheese
- 50 g butter
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 250 g applesauce
- 125 g honey
- 90 g candied fruits
- 4 g ground cinnamon
Cooking step by step:
1. Grate stale bread on a coarse grater, mix with butter and heat. Pour in some granulated sugar and cinnamon, grind the mass.
2. Whisk the remaining sugar and cream and refrigerate. Pound cottage cheese or pass through a meat grinder to make it soft and smooth. Stir in honey and 2/3 of the cream.
3. Take a deep dish, lay out a layer of bread, then applesauce, then bread again, on top of it - cottage cheese, and the top layer - again bread. Garnish with the remaining whipped cream and candied fruit and keep cold until serving.
Walnut sausage
Ingredients:
- 60 g toasted white bread
- 75 g shortbread cookies
- 120 g butter
- 75 g sugar
- 80 g nuts
- 13 g cocoa powder
Cooking in stages:
1. Crush the loaf, melt the butter in the microwave oven. Chop nuts and cookies. Stir all products in a deep bowl to get a homogeneous mixture.
2. Put the mass on cellophane or cling film, shape into a sausage, wrap and put in the freezer or on the top shelf of the refrigerator for three and a half hours. Cut into slices before serving.
Raisin Bread Pudding
Ingredients:
- 4 slices square toaster bread
- 40 g butter
- 4 tbsp. raisins
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of orange peel
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar
- ground cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 1 yolk
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of powdered sugar
- 300 g milk
- vanilla sugar
Cooking step by step:
1. Brush the bread with softened butter and cut into triangles. Place in a fireproof baking dish and sprinkle with rinsed raisins and zest. Whisk all the products for the filling, add to the bread.
2. Sprinkle with granulated sugar and cinnamon, leave to soak. Place the dish in a baking sheet with water and bake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius in the oven.
Cherry bread cake
Ingredients:
- 250 g toasted white bread
- 6 eggs
- 200 g sugar
- 200 g cherries
- 100 g butter
- 100 g of nuts
- 100 g cherry syrup
- 1 lemon
Cooking in stages:
1. Grate the loaf on a coarse grater. Remove the whites from the yolks. Mash the yolks with granulated sugar. Chop the nuts. Mash butter at room temperature and add to the yolk mixture.
2. Now stir in all the other ingredients. Remove the yellow zest from the lemon, and squeeze the juice from the pulp. Add to the rest of the products, stir.
3. Whisk the whites until fluffy, stable foam, stir into the dough. Place in a greased baking dish and bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius for 30-40 minutes.
Nut pudding
Ingredients:
- 250 g white bread
- 150 g walnuts
- 300 ml milk
- 140 g sugar
- 100 g butter
- 3 eggs
Cooking in stages:
1. Cut the bread and soak in milk. Grind the yolks and granulated sugar. Add chopped walnuts, loaf, microwaved butter and whipped egg whites, stir gently.
2. Place the mixture in a greased ceramic dish sprinkled with wheat bread crumbs and bake in the oven on medium heat for 30-35 minutes.
Bread grandma with ice cream
Ingredients:
- 300 g of Borodino bread
- 1 kg of creamy ice cream
- candied fruit
- 400 g whipped cream
- 500 g of fruit
- 50 ml of liquor
- 100 ml of water
- 100 g sugar
Cooking step by step:
1. Prepare syrup - for this mix liquor, water and fine sugar, wait until it dissolves in water. Instead of liquor, you can use sweet wine, but you need more of it.
2. Cut the bread into even rectangles, soak it in the syrup. Place with an overlap on the sides and bottom of a deep mold. Mix the sundae with the candied fruit pieces.
3. Fill the mold with ice cream, close the lid tightly (pre-grease the lid with oil from the inside). Place the dish in the freezer. Garnish with whipped cream and fruit pieces before serving.
