Hi Bill,
Hope you are able to visit! Ed has made the Tartine bread with good result but it is a lot of work and not a staple with our weekend baking because the effort and results with other recipes are a bit more balanced so to speak. Our ways of using up stale bread are mostly toast and bruschetta and with brioche it’s bread & butter pudding. But most of the bread stays in the freezer and we take out what we want to eat. Our big advantage is we normally ‘bake to order’ so we know how much to bake and not much goes to waste 🙂

No baking this weekend as am on a business trip in California. May make a visit to Tartine while I am here. I still haven’t really mastered his bread though! I am very lazy with left over bread and to be honest some of it gets thrown out in our house. I think good sourdough toast with my wife’s home made jam takes a lot of beating and to my mind sourdough actually makes better toast a few days old.

Hi Bill,
Yes we have the Tartine Bread book and it is very inspirational. I will take a look at the day old bread bit again, because I’d forgotten about that.
What is your favorite way to use up old bread?

Happy baking wknd!

Marieke