Iron Chef: Bread heels

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Like crackerjacks, almost every loaf of bread comes with a prize. 2 heels of bread. I am then left wondering what do I do with these things? I’ve made more breadcrumbs than I can use in a reasonable time, and don’t like to make croutons, so every other loaf of bread I make the bread pudding below for breakfast. But that left me wondering, what would the chefs on Iron Chef do if their obligate ingredient was bread heel?

Bread pudding

3 bread heals
1 Tbs Walnut Oil (optional)
2 Eggs (beaten)
1 C Milk
1/4 C Brown Sugar
1 Tsp Ground cinnamon
1/4 C Raisins, currents, dried dates, etc
1/4 C Walnuts

Heat oven to 350°F
Cube bread and place into an 6 inch high walled round baking dish. Drip oil over bread and spread with raisins and nuts. In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, sugar, and cinnamon. Beat and pour over bread. Submerge bread until soaked. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.

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Are you nuts? The heel of a standard loaf of bread is poisonous except when eating hotdogs. We used to make our Dad eat the heel. Our second dog liked bread, so we gave them to her. The heel of a bakery loaf of bread is not poisonous at all and is best eaten with a thick smear of butter.

3

We fight over heels in this household. Whole loaves are taken out of the bag just to get to the other end, then put back in the bag out of sequence. I like my bread for sandwiches to be sequential slices, it don’t taste right otherwise.

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Based on my family’s belief about the heels of bread, I can totally understand why the people that you live with would be fighting over the heels of the bread.

5

How cheering to see someone call them “heels”. They used to get fought over in our house in Norn Iron.
My wife would breadcrumb them. If I’m in the mood, I’ll use them for French Toast.
The Verdammt Englisch apparently don’t recognise the term. They just (just?!) call it “the crust”. Boy, the arguments I’ve had. And they call “French Toast” “Eggy Bread”. Feh!

I ask you. :boggle: They probably call a Prairie Oyster “Eggy Sauce”… And omelettes “Eggy Eggs”…