What can be done with old bread? This is a commercial setting (bakery) and bread crumbs...?!
This is for a friend who has a bread distribution business. He currently gives away all the returned bread (about 10%) for animal feed. For competitive reasons he cannot use the leftovers for bread crumbs and I wonder if there is any other commercial use for old bread.
Answers:
If it’s a good quality bread, like French, Italian or sourdough...
maybe Cro?tons?
Bread Pudding?
Dried cubes for stuffing?
Sandwich shops and diners could use it for toast -- a bit old wouldn’t make a difference once its toasted.
French toast too (better with stale bread).
And there are many soups made with stale bread, especially Mediterranean recipes. Salads too. Thinly sliced and lightly toasted and dry makes cold toasts for appetizers (have you seen bagel chips?) But if it’s standard enriched white sandwich bread, fresh or stale, animal feed is probably the best use.
Your friend could consider giving leftover bread to a local shelter for the homeless. Surely you must have agencies at work who are trying to feed hungry people with very little resources. These agencies always are in need of any help they can get.
Perhaps your friend could talk to his accountant and see if it might be feasible to get some sort of tax credit or write off in consideration of his donating the bread.
aside from animal feed and bread crumbs stale bread could be made into delicious Bread pudding that could be sold at the bakery .
here is one recipe but if your friend is a baker I'm sure that he knows how to make this or any other
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula…
and donations to the nearest charity which either gives food to poor families or has a kitchen feeding the homeless.
You are in Palo Alto which is pretty much upper class and upper middle class. Nevertheless, you are not that far from areas of poverty which really need all the help they can get.
My MIL used to buy a little older bread to make crouton with for our salad bar.
He could probably sell the returned price at a discount for animal feed. I don;pt know why he would just give it away. He should have offered it at cost rather then giving it away.
Oh yeah DEFINITELY make a bread pudding, that's an old restaurant secret.
It's cheap easy and delicious.
You can add cinnamon, raisins and walnuts, brandy, even chocolate chips
people LOVE it
If it just a plain bread,it can be used as pudding,or mixed in a casserole recipes (potato casserole etc.),french toasts,and sugar toasts.
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Bread pudding, croutons or they can be dried in a low oven and repackaged for stuffing.
A suggestion, maybe make toast with different flavors.
Toast it , break it up and feed the birds.