Wierd uses of bread...

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NYNM

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Wierd uses of bread... Fri, 08/31/07 10:44 PM (permalink)

This is not - exactly - a thought about sandwiches, just a "part" of sandwiches, but I for some reason remember "off-label" uses of bread, mostly practiced by my old school grandmother:

1. Knead up a piece for an eraser
2. Combine with milk and put on skin to draw out a pimple or boil
3. Eat plain when you have something (small) stuck in your throat

Does anyone knw these ideas - or other ones?

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HPlatz Total Posts: 103 Joined: 8/2/2007 Location: State College, PA	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Fri, 08/31/07 11:26 PM (permalink) Good trout food.
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Cakes Total Posts: 562 Joined: 9/11/2003 Location: Sarasota, FL	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Fri, 08/31/07 11:59 PM (permalink) If you have to solder copper pipe and water keeps dripping, you can take some Wonder bread or other nasty white bread, wad it up and shove it into the pipe. After you solder the new fittings in and turn the water back on the bread gets blown out of the pipe. Cakes
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Pat T Hat

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RE: Wierd uses of bread... Sat, 09/1/07 12:42 AM (permalink)

It will help stop the bleeding when you slice a finger to the bone while cutting smoked sausage with a freshly sharpened knife

!
Or so I've heard

.
(kind of like a meat putty, filler, spackle, glue all-in-one

)

The ER folks thought it was pretty interesting (or so I understand

).

I know the old adage about the dull blade being more dangerous than the sharp but....

....that's just not been my experience

.

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Sundancer7 Total Posts: 12325 Joined: 7/18/2001 Location: Knoxville, TN, TN Roadfood Insider	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Sat, 09/1/07 8:00 AM (permalink) I buy old cheap bread to feed the ducks and geese at my dock. They could care less about the age of the bread. Paul E. Smith Knoxville, TN
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HPlatz Total Posts: 103 Joined: 8/2/2007 Location: State College, PA	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Sat, 09/1/07 8:59 AM (permalink) I've seen it used to line the bottom of a roasting pan when making meat loaf and such. Soaks up the grease pretty well.
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skylar0ne Total Posts: 473 Joined: 9/10/2003 Location: Salisbury, NC	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Sat, 09/1/07 3:58 PM (permalink) I eat a piece to calm the burning in my mouth when I've eaten something that's too spicy. It soaks up the oils in the peppers.
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CajunKing

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RE: Wierd uses of bread... Sat, 09/1/07 5:38 PM (permalink)

quote:
Originally posted by Sundancer7

I buy old cheap bread to feed the ducks and geese at my dock. They could care less about the age of the bread.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Mom my does the same thing Paul, she goes to the bakery thrift store and picks up 6 for a buck, she calls it "Duck Bread"

She found a half of a loaf tucked under her seat the use by date was 4 months ago.

The scary thing....... NO MOLD!!!

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tooslimnc Total Posts: 20 Joined: 9/25/2007 Location: Charlotte , NC	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Tue, 09/25/07 8:54 PM (permalink) I save little bread heels in my freezer, then throw one in the cookie jar when I bake fresh cookies and they have started to get a bit hard. The bread will soften them up to close to fresh baked.
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lleechef Total Posts: 4300 Joined: 3/22/2003 Location: Anchorage, AK	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Tue, 09/25/07 10:12 PM (permalink) The only good use for Wonder Bread is duck food!
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C Turner Joy

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RE: Wierd uses of bread... Tue, 09/25/07 10:29 PM (permalink)

Breakfast. I worked at an Italian restaurant that had a great round loaf that was served warm, in thick slices at dinner. When we'd come in the next morning to do the breakfast, or sometimes even the lunch, shift, we'd get last night's bread, cut it up into inch or so squares, add milk and eat it like you would cereal.

Doesn't sound all that good, does it? It was wonderful. While the bread served hot and fresh wasn't sweet, there was a certain sweetness when eating it with milk. The man we learned it from is from Italy. I think that this was a typical breakfast for poor Italians when he was a young kid (right after WWII).

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janifer Total Posts: 71 Joined: 8/4/2002 Location: Tallahassee, FL	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Thu, 09/27/07 8:43 AM (permalink) My dad was a (house) painter & paperhanger back before vinyl coated wallpaper and he would use a wad of white bread to clean an area of wallpaper when he ran out of the product that was manufactured to do so (which was similar to Play-doh).
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Sonny Funzio Total Posts: 865 Joined: 2/13/2006 Location: Detroit, MI	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Thu, 09/27/07 2:25 PM (permalink) An old way to put the yeast into the must during winemaking is to make a piece of toast and put the yeast on that, then float it in the liquid.
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efuery Total Posts: 630 Joined: 12/23/2003 Location: Danbury, CT	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Thu, 09/27/07 2:51 PM (permalink) We used white bread to dust the mounted animals in my college mammology class.The Prof. said it was about the only thing it was good for, LOL.
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NonnieD

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RE: Wierd uses of bread... Thu, 09/27/07 3:20 PM (permalink)

HI,
AN OLD CAR TRICK WAS TO PLUG A SMALL HOLE IN THE RADIATOR, WITH A WAD OF BREAD.
TILL YOU COULD GET IT FIX, AND YES I AGREE GOOD FOR FISH FOOD YOU ROLL IT IN A BALL AND STICK ON THE HOOK,
FISHY FISHY IN THE BROOK,
DADDY CAUGHT HIM WITH A HOOK
AND NOW MOMMA IS COOKIN HIM IN A PAN

I DON'T REMEMBER IF THERE IS ANY MORE, NOR WHERE I LEARNED THAT.
HE HE HE JUST THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY.
MAKES ME WANT SOME FRIED IN CORNMEAL CATFISH. YUM

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divefl Total Posts: 1671 Joined: 3/23/2007 Location: washington, DC	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Thu, 09/27/07 3:27 PM (permalink) #3 of grandma's suggestions seems like a bad idea.
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Sonny Funzio

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RE: Wierd uses of bread... Thu, 09/27/07 4:48 PM (permalink)

quote:
Originally posted by tooslimnc

I save little bread heels in my freezer, then throw one in the cookie jar when I bake fresh cookies and they have started to get a bit hard. The bread will soften them up to close to fresh baked.

Bread heels from good bread like sourdough are one of lifes great little pleasures ... I could never sacrifice one to the cookie jar though.
I remember one episode of The Honeymooners where, to show Alice how angry he was, Ralph took the heel of the bread, showed it to her, and threw it out the window. A rash moment indeed.

As far as bread used to freshen cookies, that's an interesting ideaa. Cabbage leaves have been used for the same purpose ... uh well, to re-humidify cigars at least ... ok, not quite the same.

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PapaJoe8 Total Posts: 5504 Joined: 1/13/2006 Location: Dallas... DFW area	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Thu, 09/27/07 5:06 PM (permalink) My Pawpaw would get stale bread from Mrs. Bairds bakery and feed it to the catfish he raised. They would come to the top of the water before the first slice hit the pond. He said it made them taste better. I think he was right. I have yet to have catfish as good as his. Joe
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Williamsburger Total Posts: 390 Joined: 5/26/2005 Location: Williamsburg, VA	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Fri, 09/28/07 10:28 AM (permalink) quote: Originally posted by lleechef The only good use for Wonder Bread is duck food! Frankly, it's not very good for the ducks! CB
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6star

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RE: Wierd uses of bread... Fri, 09/28/07 11:17 AM (permalink)

quote:
Originally posted by NonnieD

HI,
AN OLD CAR TRICK WAS TO PLUG A SMALL HOLE IN THE RADIATOR, WITH A WAD OF BREAD.
TILL YOU COULD GET IT FIX, AND YES I AGREE GOOD FOR FISH FOOD YOU ROLL IT IN A BALL AND STICK ON THE HOOK,

FISHY FISHY IN THE BROOK,
DADDY CAUGHT HIM WITH A HOOK
AND NOW MOMMA IS COOKIN HIM IN A PAN

I DON'T REMEMBER IF THERE IS ANY MORE, NOR WHERE I LEARNED THAT.
HE HE HE JUST THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY.
MAKES ME WANT SOME FRIED IN CORNMEAL CATFISH. YUM

Fishy, fishy in the brook
Papa catch him with a hook
Mama fry him in a pan
Baby eat him like a man.

OR

Fishy, fishy in the brook
Papa catch him with a hook
Mama fry him in a pan
________(child's name) eat him fast's (s)he can.

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KIMMYJ1962 Total Posts: 58 Joined: 2/3/2006 Location: Flint, MI	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Fri, 09/28/07 2:43 PM (permalink) When I break some glass, white bread helps to pick up the teeny shards.
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Sundancer7

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RE: Wierd uses of bread... Fri, 09/28/07 4:40 PM (permalink)

quote:
Originally posted by Williamsburger

quote:
Originally posted by lleechef

The only good use for Wonder Bread is duck food!

Frankly, it's not very good for the ducks!
CB

I disagree. I have been feeding my mallards and wood ducks bread for years. Their numbers has increased dramatically. I use to have just a few and now I have 40-50 every day. They look healthy to me.

My deck is only about 25 feet from the Tennesse river and my buddies are there every morning and every evening wondering where the foreign aide is coming from?

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

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NYNM Total Posts: 2918 Joined: 6/16/2005 Location: New York, NY/Santa Fe, NM	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Mon, 10/1/07 10:26 PM (permalink) I am enjoying this!!!
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Ciaoman

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RE: Wierd uses of bread... Mon, 10/1/07 11:02 PM (permalink)

quote:
Originally posted by C Turner Joy

Breakfast. I worked at an Italian restaurant that had a great round loaf that was served warm, in thick slices at dinner. When we'd come in the next morning to do the breakfast, or sometimes even the lunch, shift, we'd get last night's bread, cut it up into inch or so squares, add milk and eat it like you would cereal.

Doesn't sound all that good, does it? It was wonderful. While the bread served hot and fresh wasn't sweet, there was a certain sweetness when eating it with milk. The man we learned it from is from Italy. I think that this was a typical breakfast for poor Italians when he was a young kid (right after WWII).

Your comment about the bread and milk rung a bell. Does anyone remember the movie Il Postino? (The postman.) There's a scene where the main character's father is sitting in his kitchen eating dinner...they were dirt poor. Dinner consisted of old bread torn up and dropped into milk. Funny how that scene came to mind after I read your comment.

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LuckyLabrador Total Posts: 583 Joined: 2/6/2007 Location: Green Valley, CA	RE: Wierd uses of bread... Fri, 10/5/07 6:19 PM (permalink) I stuff Wonder Bread in my ears at night, cuts the noise of my wife snoring !
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