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