How to Make Breadcrumbs

Hi, Bold Bakers. It's usually around the holiday season that we need bread crumbs for recipes like homemade stuffing and even some traditional desserts like Christmas pudding. The thing about it is we find ourselves rushing to the store to buy a little amount of expensive bread crumbs. I'm going to show you how you can make your very own at home really simply, saving you time and saving your money. So here I have my food processor. If you don't have a food processor, you can use a blender. You're just going to have to move the bread around as it's blending. Here I have some bread. This is my recipe for white bread. This is at least two days old. The staler the bread the better. So I'm just going to add this into my food processor. You can break it up into chunks as you're going. Pop on your lid. All you want to do is just blend this up until it's really fine. So the question I get about bread crumbs is can you use any bread to make bread crumbs? And the answer is yes you can as long as it suits the recipe you're going to use it in. So if I was going to make meatballs and I have a loaf of sundried tomato and olive bread, that would work. I’d blend that up and it would work really well as bread crumbs. I wouldn't use croissaint bread crumbs to make meatballs, so just think about the recipe that you're going to use. Also another question is, do you have to cut off the crusts? If you want all white bread crumbs, then cut off the crusts. If you don't care, then honestly leave on the crust. Totally fine, they don't make any bit of difference. Gorgeous look at this. It blended super fine because my bread was a few days old. This is absolutely perfect. Now these are fresh bread crumbs So what you do is you can put them into the fridge and keep them in there for a week or keep them in the freezer for around 4 weeks and then you can use them whenever you want them. If you want dry bread crumbs, however, you're going to pop them into the oven at 250 degrees Fahrenheit or 125 degrees Celsius for roughly 15 minutes until they dry out a little bit. Then you can keep those guys in the cupboard for a few days or they can also be frozen. I hope you found this video useful. Head to biggerbolderbaking.com. I've got a holiday baking HQ there with every recipe you'll need for this holiday season. From cookies to fandoms to edible gifts you will not be disappointed.