Bread Fried For Soup Recipe

• 1 or 2 slices of stale bread, 1/4 inch thick
• Frying oil

1. Remove the crust and cut the bread into small cubes not more than a 1/4 inch square.
2. Half fill an iron saucepan with frying oil and let boil. This happens when it is still and a blue smoke rises from it.
3. Put the bread cubes, a few at a time, into a frying basket and plunge them into the fat. Shake them about until they are a golden brown color.
4. Turn them onto kitchen paper to free them from grease. Take another spoonful and proceed as before, until a sufficient quantity of croutons are fried.
5. Put the fried bread croutons upon a dish covered with a napkin and serve with the soup.
6. Sometimes the fried bread croutons are put into the soup tureen and the soup is poured over them.
7. The bread can also be cut in diamond shapes and prepared as above to use for garnishing.

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