Susan Faye Gibson - The Crummy Little Cookbook: How to Stretch Your Food Dollar with Recipes from the Day Old Thrift Store.

ISBN: 9781483525440 Dedicated to the Bakers, Delivery Drivers and Thrift Store Workers Who Make Modern Bread and Cake a Marvel. Introduction Bread in the supermarket is day old. The freshest bread or cake delivered is baked the previous day. This is not to say the bread and cakes are stale when you buy them. If you are reluctant to shop at a bakery thrift outlet, it should hold no stigma, as all bread is day old. In the supermarket, the markup for bakery products is 22-23%.

The bread has the fastest turnover for shelf space of any item in the store. It is a consistent money maker. The bread on the shelf is dated for freshness. The farther out the date is from the date you buy the bread, the fresher it is; white bread stays on the shelf about four days, wheat breads five or more. If there is bread hidden in the back, it is freshest. Most people are right handed, so the freshest bread is often placed to the left bottom.

Stores have a store label. To determine who makes it, look at which company has the largest selection. The bakery pays for this first position by making the store label. Usually, the cheapest brand variety is the same as the store label. There is no need to spend extra for the same bread. As far as fresh bread in the store, bakeries do not deliver on Wednesday or Sunday.

On Wednesday and Sunday, every brand of bread is at least two days old, it is not a good time to buy bread. Three day and winter holiday periods play havoc with the delivery schedule, and it is hard to find fresh bread in the stores. The day old or thrift store offers bread at cost, there is no mark up as it is not fresh. This bread is a great bargain. Really does it matter if the bread is the freshest fresh to make toast? Cake products last a long time and even though it is in a bakery outlet, it is still good. The hamburger and hotdog buns are every bit as fresh as your local hamburger stand or fast food restaurant.

The bakery products in the Thrift Store/Bakery Outlet comes from delivery routes. It is the bread that does not sell by the code date in retail accounts. Sometimes, there is fresh bread in the Thrift Store. This is especially true if the Outlet adjoins a bakery. Sometimes bread will be sent into the wrapper sideways or upside down and is sold in the Outlet. Shopping in a Thrift Store/Bakery Outlet can save you money.

This cookbook is intended to assist you in that task. Have a good time saving money. Types of Bread Bread is a universal food. Perhaps the first types of bread were made from crushed acorns mixed with water and dried in the sun. Bread making was an organized industry in early Egypt. There have been bakers guilds or unions since the early middle ages.

Housewives rioted for bread at the dawn of the French Revolution. The remains of bakeries were found in Pompeii after the excavations were complete. Very few of us knows much about bread making in todays industrial scale. Very often we say, I have to run to the store for a loaf of bread. We never give a thought to the work and research involved in this simple statement. Commercial bakers do constant research to decide on product placement.

The people delivering bread have to take an educated guess as to how much to order based on past sales. Weather has a direct bearing on the formulation of baking mixes for a particular day. This all works to provide variety and freshness of the many types of bread. White and Wheat Breads These can be used in all type of recipes for sandwiches, for morning toast and for childrens favorite peanut butter and jelly treats after school. Stone Ground Breads Use this for toast, special sandwiches and try it toasted and broken into pieces for the base of your stuffing mix next time. High Protein Breads These days, everyone is diet conscious and nearly every new diet calls for bread of one type or another.

Of course, the high protein breads are perfect for these and just as good for everyday use. Use this for sandwiches, toasted and ground up for cereal. Grind up protein and raisin breads for daily cereal. Muffins Who hasnt tried muffins? Toast these and let your imagination run wild. These make delicious individual pizzas, open faced hamburgers from the broiler, and try them with bits of bacon, or salad seasoning mixed with butter and toasted. Have you tried these toasted and served with fresh fruit for a shortcake? Use any seasonal fruit, strawberries, peaches or sliced bananas.

Hamburger Buns Saturday night Sloppy Jos, the Sunday afternoon barbecue and how can they be complete without the hamburger bun? Try these toasted and served as individual pizzas. Try these toasted and with peanut butter. They are very good for chicken or egg salad sandwiches in lunches and as toasted cheese sandwiches. Hot Dog Buns The American Favorite. They are great for a camping trips and for a quick snack. Steam them and serve at Little League games.

Use them for hamburger sticks or Terryaki Burgers. Raisin Bread This type is available as plain raisin bread, nutty raisin bread and cinnamon raisin bread. This is ideal for morning toast or an afternoon snack. Try this for your next bread pudding or with baked apples. Have you tried this for French Toast? It is really good! Brown and Serve Rolls What holiday dinner is complete without them? Try them for other meals also. It is surprising how hot rolls make a simple casserole tops with the family.

Split the rolls before baking and butter and add cinnamon sugar for breakfast. Low Sodium This is essential for salt free diets. This seems to have a flat taste, but can be dressed up in sandwiches or toasted. Salt Rising My Favorite. If you can stand the smell while it is toasting, it makes the morning toast and coffee great. This bread is hard to find and may only be available in the store bakery.

Rye and Pumpernickel Bread Who can think of a party without these breads? They are excellent with any meat or sandwich filling. Try them toasted or as grilled cheese. French Bread and Rolls There are so many ways to use these types of bread. Garlic French Bread is everyones favorite. What is french onion soup without crusty french bread? In this book, you will find a recipe for chicken baked in french bread that will become a favorite with you and your family. Now for the french rolls.

You can use these any way you use french bread. Makes delicious stuffed salad rolls or poor boy sandwiches to make ahead and freeze. Now to the recipes! Spreads for Hot Bread Use two cubes of butter or margarine and mix with any of the following for some truly great spreads for hot french bread, brown and serve items or hot toasted muffins. 1. 1/3 cup green minced onion, 1/3 cup mayonnaise,and 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese. cup honey and cup peanut butter 3. cup mixed black olives, cup grated cheddar cheese, and 1 teaspoon grated onion. 4. 4.

One package dry onion soup mix. Especially good on french bread. 5. Three tablespoons salad seasoning mixed with chopped chives. 6. 1/3 cup crisp bacon bits, for hot toasted muffins.

Garlic Croutons 1 loaf white bread. 1 cup margarine 4 crushed garlic cloves Remove the crusts from the bread and cut into inch cubes. Toast the cubes and crusts on a cookie sheet in 300 degree oven for 4 minutes. Melt the margarine and add the crushed garlic coves. Brown the toasted bread cubes in the margarine mixture until browned on all sides. Drain on a paper towel.

These can now be frozen or used at once. If frozen, reheat for five minutes. Use the crusts for bread crumbs. Bread Crumbs You can dry or toast any type of bread for this. Grind up and season with margarine of salt and pepper. Store in freezer and use for topping on casseroles in meat loaves etc.

Party Time Ideas Egg Tomato Cocktail Sandwiches 6 Slices white or wheat sandwich bread. Mayonnaise Sliced Tomato Sliced Hard Cooked Eggs Parsley Toast bread and spread with mayonnaise Cut in quarters and place small slice tomato and a slice hard cooked egg on each quarter. Garnish with parsley. Bacon Surprises 24 slices white sandwich bread. pound thin bacon Margarine cup grated cheddar cheese. Cup chopped olives.