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To Make Brown Crumbs

A historical recipe from The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information , by Philip E. Muskett.

A historical recipe

The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken, by Philip E. Muskett. Project Gutenberg eBook #4219.

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Source and licence

From The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information , by Philip E. Muskett. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #4219 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4219). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Method

  1. Cut up some very stale bread and bake it in the oven till a nice colour.
  2. Put these pieces through a sausage machine and then rum them through a sieve;
  3. keep in a bottle for use.
  4. They are excellent for many savoury dishes, and it is good way of using up stale pieces of bread.