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Bread ... why?
- Thread starter bulkbiker
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DJC3
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Haha my mum! Probably to serve us right for sneaking sugar sandwiches.
You had to have a ton of butter or the weetabix just dried up in your mouth and stuck it together.
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Deleted member 308541
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Before my mother went crazy she used to make bread pudding, this is not to be confused with bread and butter pudding. This was made from soaked stale bread, currants and sultanas, spices all mixed in. Then cooked in the oven till it was a nice brown colour.
Garbo's wedding cake she called it when it was cold and cut in slices, never could get therrecipe though.
Garbo's wedding cake she called it when it was cold and cut in slices, never could get therrecipe though.
bulkbiker
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my grandmother used to make one too which was absolutely amazing.. I think she put lard and butter in it as well as soaking the stale bread in water for day.. or something like that. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately for me) the recipe died with her.
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Deleted member 308541
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She soaked it about that long as well, I do not know what the spices were though as that made the nice taste to it.
We have tried a lot of recipes and they are no where near the stuff she made.
She had a Mrs Beetens cookbook with a shed load of recipes alterations in a notebook which she had done. The books was gone when we cleared her possessions out after she died.
I think I'll read it every morning.
ickihun
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Your poor teeth.
I'm guessing not very often thou.
ickihun
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Yuck! Marmite. I'm gagging just thinking of it.
Dr Snoddy
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Growing up in NZ. Tinned spaghetti sandwiches, pickled beetroot sandwiches, banana sandwiches, vegemite and crisp sandwiches all on slabs of fresh white bread. Mum used to send us to the bakery to buy crusty bread straight from the oven and inevitably half of the interior was scoffed before we got home. Carb porn!!!
britishpub
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It's not just bread.
I personally cannot understand why people want to find "alternatives" for stuff.
There is a huge wide world of delicious low carb food out there to eat.
Sub standard alternatives for high carb food are the last thing I can be bothered thinking about.
I know where you are coming from, but it has to be said that the low-carb breads we often talk about are not designed for diabetic people or indeed anyone with special dietary requirements. Quite often they are marketed just as being 'healthy' or 'high protein' etc rather than 'reduced carbs for people with special needs'.
I know a couple of people who aren't remotely health-conscious who raved about Lidl's high protein rolls, and one who loves LivLife from Waitrose. They don't think these breads are sub-standard at all.
I don't know. But this has become my favourite one. Thanks
.You have started possibly the most debauched orgy of bread-porn that we will ever see on this site and this thread may well become legendary. It may even lead to me frying some full-on-nutritionally-void white bread to remind myself how wonderful it was and see if I can get away with it.
Are you pleased with yourself? Did you think things through?
bulkbiker
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Well shall we say this hasn't gone quite the way I had hoped... still so long as everyone is having fun who cares?
Boo1979
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When I was a kid, a treat was buttered toast with lashings of marmite and a variety of different fruits - mashed banana ( no sugar), grapes, melon or apple slices
Not the best for a diabetic in waiting maybe, but positively healthy compared to one of my best friends whose favourite sandwhich consisted of a bar of Dairy Milk chocolate between 2 slices of thick sliced white bread
