Though normally one gets to make the bread crumbs from stale bread, it is advisable not to use very stale bread. At the most, it can be a day's old or best is to use fresh bread.
How to make Rusk:
Rusk is double-baked bread. For this, you can bake your own bread and again bake the baked bread or you can use store-bought bread. Anything works fine.
If you like the sides as I do, simply microwave the slices for 1 min and the turn and again microwave for 1 min. Slices that are a little thick needs a little longer, but the bread tends to get crispy after cooling down. So don't fear seeing that the bread is still soft after removing it from the microwave.
I basically make two ways of bread crumbs, one for binding, another for coating or breading.
When you need something to bind your food like cutlets, patties, or even ground meat, you can opt for potatoes or fresh bread crumbs. In such situations, you simply pulse the bread in your food processor or mixer and you get a fine crumb, though very soft to touch.
This helps in binding the food to be shallow fried or deep-fried.
The other process that requires bread crumbs, is to coat or breading the food such as fish fingers, cutlet outer layer, etc.
In this process, you will need crisp crumbs and for this, you can microwave the bread and grind it to get small pieces.
Cutlets are dipped in eggs or all-purpose flour and then pressed over crispy bread crumbs for an overall coating and then fried.
Sobha Shyam says
Great and informative post..!!
Merry Christmas to you and your family !!
veena krishnakumar says
Easy way to this. Thank you. very helpful
Gayathri Kumar says
Very useful tips...
Nalini's Kitchen says
Informative post Valli.....
The Pumpkin Farm says
love the detailing, thanks
Priya says
Very useful post, Valli..
Suma Gandlur says
Valli, do you mean that if you put bread slices in MW for 2 minutes, they would be crisp as rusk?
PriyaVaasu says
useful post valli!!!!
Maayeka says
very useful and informative post..
Vardhini says
Useful post Valli.
Pavani says
Very useful post Valli.
Cool Lassi(e) says
Easy Breezy crumbs!I so love homemade crumbs!
sushma says
One of the simple things can be made at home