Fried Bread to Serve with Soup

Ingredients

• stale bread loaf
• 2 ounces butter

Instructions

1. Cut slices a quarter of an inch thick from a stale loaf.
2. Pare off the crust from each slice.
3. Divide the bread into dice or cut it with a small paste-cutter into any other form.
4. Melt the butter in a frying-pan over a gentle fire.
5. Add the bread to the melted butter.
6. Keep the bread turned over the fire until it is equally coloured to a very pale brown.
7. Drain the bread from the butter.
8. Dry it on a soft cloth, or on a sheet of paper placed before a clear fire upon a dish, or upon a reversed sieve.
9. Serve hot.