Cooking Activity- Roman Bread Pudding

For the past couple of weeks, we have been learning about the Egyptians and the Romans. In today's lesson, in our book "Living Long Ago", we learned that the Romans ate lots of weird things like snails, oysters, stuffed dormice, and boar's head. We also learned about some of their desserts that sounded a little more appetizing.

Paxton suggested we try the recipe the book offered for Roman Bread Pudding. We had several disadvantages when attempting this recipe because one ingredient was bread and we only had diet low carb bread. I know from experience that this doesn't cook well. I also didn't have enough olive oil to make it more like deep fried but I agreed we could try it anyway and here is what we discovered.

 Pax helped me gather the ingredients which were milk, cubed bread, olive oil, and honey. 

The low carb bread soaked up the milk and became mushy instantly. We tried it out anyway and learned that it did not want to cook in the oil and only certain parts browned. Had we used more oil and attempted to deep fry, this might have worked better. 

We drizzled raw honey on top of the fried bread and Pax ate about half of his serving. I was done after one bite. LOL.

Maybe you are brave enough to try this recipe out for fun? We decided this is a recipe we probably won't be trying again but had fun anyway!