Bread Crusts, Heels, Ends, Butts.

[Pburgh]

Yep, makes yummy stuffing too. I also make some cornbread a week before and let it get hard. Saute onion, celery in butter and add to broken up crusts. Sage, egg, chicken broth and bake!!!

[azsnowman]

I HATES the heels on store bought bread, when I bake our bread in our machine, I "LOVE" the butts!

<-----there ya go Dennis

Geeee....thanks George, I love ya too man That's fine....no problem, as they say, "Paybacks buddy, paybacks!" JUST KIDDING!

[DaylilyDawn]

My mother would collect the biscuts that didn't get eaten and the last slice of cornbread that was left and use that to make her dressing. She mixed the cornbread with the bread after it was torn up. I now make my dressing the same way.

[Bella]

Wow...I can't believe not one "Italian" answer to this! Heels are the BEST when you use them to slop up homemade gravy (red gravy, of course). They actually sell heels at Italian restaurants in RI.

P.S...also excellent for sopping up good Italian dressing.....YUM!

[O Town]

Well I have a good bit of Italian blood running through my viens and I do not like the butts, or crust of store bought sliced bread. Fresh bread and loafs are a whole different story. I love bread just not the butt of a loaf, so I don't think its the taste but more the texture, and I am not a picky eater either. I will eat pretty much anything, and try everything at least once.

I do love to sop up some oil and vinegar dressing, or clean my pasta plate with some fresh made bread too. Mmmmmm.

[Bella]

I think we're on the same wavelength. Though I made the assumption that we were talking about fresh, Italian bread. The kind in the paper wrapper. (That's how my family always referred to the "ends" or "heels" of the bread) Maybe I'm due for a vacation back home up North! It was actually a treat for us to eat the ends on the way to the traditional, huge, Italian Sunday dinner at my Grandmother's.

[Pburgh]

Up here they use the heels of the Italian bread in lottsa ways. One is stuffing it full of meatballs and sauce, covering it with mozzarella cheese and putting it in the oven to melt the cheese. I love dunking those heels into homemade sauce.