[8] To prepare the dish, the bread is either cut into pieces and put directly into the broth, or it is cooked with onions and spices in a broth and then pureed.

is prepared from the broth remaining from the steeping of sausage during home butchering of pigs.

An Italian variation, millefanti, also uses egg and Parmesan cheese.

[10][11] Brewis is a type of bread soup associated with the cuisine of Northern England.

[12] A similar dish in the cuisine of New England was made by softening rye bread or Boston brown bread with milk and maple syrup.