Thursday is farmers’ market day, a day I look forward to with glee all week. This week, I selected some rugelach from a local bakery and was somehow talked into buying one of their loaves of bread as well – a new apple harvest flavor.
It sounds delicious and I suppose I could just eat it, but that seems so prosaic. So I was wondering if the Dopers had any suggestions as to what else I could do with it.
Secondary question: If I don’t get a suggestion that pleases me, I was going to whip up some bread pudding. I just got some fancy new muffin pans… Could I possibly make individual bread puddings in my fancy new muffin pans? Would that even work?
Is it like a dessert bread, or like a rustic yeast bread with apples in it (ie, apple flavored but not necessarily sweet)?
If it’s the latter, I’d do some cool sandwiches with it. Turkey goes well with those flavors - could get crazy and do turkey with slices of green apples and some mild cheese. Or a curried chicken salad, made with raisins. Ham might be nice as well. Grilled ham & swiss on apple bread sounds pretty good. I’ll be right over.
Not a dessert bread. There’s a distinct apple flavor and there’s some juicy raisins mixed in, but I could definitely see this as an interesting sandwich bread. Good idea.
I like the curried chicken salad idea best, but I came to say French Toast.
So, French toast? Almond butter would also be really good.
Muffin tin idea: cut rounds, butter and smoosh into muffin cups so they act like a crust. then fill with anything yummy and bakeable. I’m thinking maple sausage, pecans and some filler veggies - celery etc.
I was going to suggest bread pudding, and you can definitely do little individual bread puddings in muffin tins! Just make sure to make the bread cubes pretty small. And probably toast/stale-ify them beforehand.
