My recipe for stuffing calls for 'oven-dried white bread'. This is my first Thanksgiving dinner.?!
Answers: Is oven-dried a particular type of bread or is it just white bread and you do something to make it oven-dried? This recipe recommends Pepperidge Farm bread and they don't have a bread called oven-dried.
Oven-dried means you cut it into cubes, put it on a baking sheet, and then put it in a warm oven for about 20 minutes so that the bread becomes drier/harder, so that when you add broth to it to make stuffing, it's not so soggy.
They are talking about drying out the bread in the oven...just use unseasoned bread crumbs in the can you can get them in any graocery store
That means you actually put it in the oven at a low temperature so not to cook it, but to dry it out. Lay the slices flat on a cooking sheet and do just what you need.
I THINK YOU JUST TOAST IT UP IN THE OVEN, SOMETHING LIKE A CROUTON. OH JUST GO BUY SOME
they just mean to slowly dry the bread in a warm oven...(I just lightly toast mine in the toaster)
Food manufacturers give free recipes that call for the use of their own products. You do not have to use them. Use any white bread and dry it in the oven. Or as many do nowadays-just by white bread croutons, they come already cut up and dry.
Yo learn that sometimes you need to make things not buy them. What the recipe wants is stale bread. Oven drying (200deg for 1 hour should do it) will remove enough moisture from FRESH bread to make it usable for the recipe.
It means dried bread cubes...and Pepperidge Farm does have them....but any would do unless it calls for the seasoned ones, if they are not seasoned, dry your own, cut your bread into small cubes and dry on a low temp until they are totally dry....
Drying bread in the oven is just a faster way of getting the moisture out. Many people merely set the slices out the day before and let them air dry (basically, get stale). It is just normal white bread. I use the toaster.
The recipe is asking for stale bread. Any bread will work just let it dry out a bit first. Placing slices on oven rack for 20 minutes at 250 will work. The idea is so the bread will not just squish together in a giant dough ball when you mix it.
Good luck and congrats on cooking your first Thanksgiving Dinner - you will do great!
It's not really necessary to dry the bread in the oven, particularly when you have other things taking up valuable space in there and many things to do (you might forget it's in there!). We just leave the bread out of the wrapper on the counter for about 16 hours before making the dressing. It turns out just fine.