With a situation when in a bread box the piece of the hardened bread appeared, even very good hostesses sometimes face. It happens if bread long lies without plastic bag. At once you shouldn't throw out it, especially if a piece rather big. There are many tasty dishes which are cooked from the hardened bread. Besides, it can be made fresh, tasty and fragrant.
It is required to you
- - apple;
- - big pan;
- - small pan;
- - wooden bar;
- - potato;
- - piece of a canvas;
- - colander with a cover;
- - brown paper;
- - oven;
- - microwave;
- - double boiler.
Instruction
1. Examine the stale piece. If on it there was a mold, then to do something is useless, just it is better to throw out such bread. The mold is formed if loaf or long loaf long lay without air access. Without having found a hopeless greenish scurf, define as far as bread hardened.
2. If bread hardened not strongly, inwrap it in wet unbleached linen. The canvas has to be real, linen, whenever possible rough. Put a parcel in the warmed oven and take it at a temperature about 100 °C not of 3-5 minutes. In the absence of unbleached linen it is possible to wet slightly brown paper or it is even simple to sprysnut a piece water from all directions.
3. It is very good if there is a microwave. In this case it is better to cut bread on pieces and to sprinkle slightly water. Put it in a plastic container and put in the microwave for 30 seconds. It isn't necessary to use this way if there is no opportunity to divide the hardened loaf into slices.
4. Small pieces can be refreshed by means of just cooked potato. Merge it and place bread slices in a pan. Close for 2-3 minutes then get bread and continue to do with potato that you gathered.
5. For bread which can be cut, eaten also one more way. Put pieces in a colander and cover. Pour into a big pan water approximately to a half. Put it on fire and bring to the boil. Lower a flame, put a colander on a pan and take several minutes.
6. It is possible to refresh strongly hardened bread on peculiar "water bath". Put wooden bar in a big pan and fill it with water. Waters has to be so much that freely there was a small pan in which it is necessary to put bread. It can be a whole piece or cut. Close all design a cover. Make small fire and heat, you won't feel a smell of fresh bread yet. It is possible to use also the double boiler.