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[venta]

Last night's hurried bung-it-in-the-oven dinner was intended to be baked haddock with a herby crust. Breadcrumbs, mix in chopped herbs and olive oil, slap on top of fish, shove in oven. Done.

Except... well. The sliced bread had gone all pernicious. It looked fine, but had stealthily gone colourfully and fluffily off behind all the opaque bits of the plastic bag. No breadcrumbs :(

Except, lurking in the bread bin, overlooked, was the tiny, nobbly end of Saturday's baguette. Baguettes go a bit hard and dry when you've had them more than 35 minutes, so Saturday's French bready-product was rock solid.

I normally make breadcrumbs from fresh bread, rubbing slices between my hands. Occasionally, if I'm feeling very together, I put the slices out to go a little stale first. But four day old baguette? Not a chance.

On a whim, I tried grating it with a coarse grater. Bingo! A suitable-sized pile of breadcrumbs in no time. Probably even easier than normal.

Maybe everyone else already makes breadcrumbs like this. I just thought I'd mention it :)

Comments

[marjory.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I mostly only use breadcrumby stuff at Christmas for the stuffing. This involves buying a bloomer and letting it go stale whilst repeatedly fending people off from consuming it in the meantime. We're terribly non eco-friendly and put the surviving bread through a food processor, although your method sounds less wasteful.

That's the way, that's the way it's meant to be

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I have a coffee grinder (not sure I've ever ground coffee with it, mind you), which would probably do the job, although with rather more noise!
If it helps, breadcrumbs can be bagged and frozen, and used straight from the freezer.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

My mum used to save up crusts in the freezer and then defrost them and sling them in the blender for Christmas stuffing.

[lnr]

I normally do breadcrumbs in the food processor :)

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

I.leave bread on the side until stale and then apply the blender.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

I think most people aren't keen on using graters to make breadcrumbs and prefer blenders. (I certainly do.) This may have Biblical roots: Grater love hath no man, etc.

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

Sliced Bread!!!!
SLICED BREAD!!!!!!!

You buy white slice plastic innabag?
Have you no shame?

[uitlander]

Never were the words beneath my feet begin to crumble more appropriate. I usually make breadcrumbs this way. It seems odd to think you'd use fresh bread for this purpose.