Eat Like A Local: 6 European Dishes To Cook Using Stale Bread

For all the foodies stuck at home, here’s how you can bring the flavours of Europe to your kitchen using the ingredients you’ll already have sitting in the cupboard. 

Hurry for stale bread! 

Bread Pudding

Origin: UK

• ¹⁄₂ loaf leftover bread 
• 500 ml milk 
• 2 tbsp butter 
• 45 g sugar 
• 2 eggs
• raisins (optional)

Pain Perdu

Origin: France

• 2 slices thick day-old bread 
• 120 ml milk
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp sugar 
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp all-purpose flour 
• strawberries (optional)
• blueberries (optional)
  

Arme Ritter

Origin: German

• 4 slices stale bread 
• 250 ml milk 
• 3 tbsp butter 
• 1 egg

Bread Sauce

Origin: UK

• 1 loaf of 2 day-old white bread 
• 700 ml milk 
• 30 g butter 
• 1 onion
• 1 bay leaf 
• 4 cloves

Pastizzu

Origin: France

• 1 loaf of stale bread 
• 1 L milk 
• 100 g sugar 
• 5 eggs

Semmelknoedel

Origin: Germany

• 1 loaf leftover bread 
• 1 cup milk 
• 2 tbsp butter 
• 2 eggs
• 1 onion
• ¹⁄₂ tsp salt 
• 1 pinch ground black pepper