To Fry Bread to Serve with Soup

Ingredients

• half a pound of bread
• two ounces of the best butter

Method

1. 1

   Cut some slices a quarter of an inch thick from a stale loaf; pare off the crust and divide the bread into dice, or cut it with a small paste-cutter into any other form.

2. 2

   For half a pound of bread, put two ounces of the best butter into a frying-pan, and when it is quite melted, add the bread; keep it turned over a gentle fire until it is equally coloured to a very pale brown, then drain it from the butter, and dry it on a soft cloth or on a sheet of paper placed before a clear fire upon a dish, or upon a sieve reversed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO FRY BREAD TO SERVE WITH SOUP. Cut some slices a quarter of an inch thick from a stale loaf ; pare off the crust and divide the bread into dice, or cut it with a small paste-cutter into any other form. For half a pound of bread put two ounces of the best butter

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