I love bread, good bread I mean, but not always I can eat it all 🙂 not a problem, we always do breadcrumbs that we always need in the kitchen, but this is another good way to use old stale bread 🙂 actually it’s not a recipe, it’s one of those things that people in the past used to do by using what they had at home each time, so every family did it in different ways, and differently from time to time probably.

Very probably it was also not so rich of ingredients. But why not to make it even tastier 🙂

In my case I used a sourdough bread, made not with white flour. The right amount of milk may vary, depending from bread to bread and their capacity to absorb liquids, so you can play with it.

 

INGREDIENTS (for a 26-28 cm cake):

• 300 g of stale bread
• 400-450 ml milk
• 40 g cocoa powder (or if you prefer, dark chocolate in pieces)
• 2 handfuls of almonds (or walnuts, pine nuts, or a mix)
• 100 g raisins
• 80 g soft butter
• 100 g sugar
• 1 apple
• 60-70 g of candied orange peel (or just lemon zest)
• a small glass of grappa (I used palinka)
• 1 egg
• a tablespoon of cocoa powder
• 1-2 tablespoons of sugar

 

1. First of all we have to cut the stale bread in pieces, and soak it with milk for a while, until it gets softer. In the same time take a bowl and soak the raisins into the grappa.
2. When the bread is softer, you can break it in smaller pieces with hands.
3. Now to the soaked bread add all the ingredients, and mix it well with hands.
4. Take a high oven cake pan (greased with butter), pour everything inside and make it compact with your hands.
5. Bake at 180 °C, static mode, for about 55-60 minutes.