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by Annalise Sandbergon Jan 17, 2017 (updated Dec 19, 2023)
Many recipes for bread pudding or baked French toast ask that you use stale or day-old bread. Recipes like thesewereoriginally created as a way to use old, stale bread. It soaks up the liquidand becomes moist and fresh again after baking. But does the bread need to be dry and stale in order to soak up the liquid? Not really, the difference it makes is very small.Use whatever bread you have.
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originally published on Jan 17, 2017 (last updated Dec 19, 2023)
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Kenna — Reply
I make bread pudding fairly often and it always falls. I just quit worrying about it. It still tastes wonderful.
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