Name: Toast and Water
Ingredients: thin slices of bread; cold water or boiling water

Toast and Water

Ingredients

thin slices of bread
cold water or boiling water

Directions

Toast the bread slices on both sides carefully.
Pour cold water over the toasted bread and cover tightly for one hour.
Alternatively, use boiling water and let it cool.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Thin slices of bread: Provides the base that softens and takes on moisture as it steeps.
Cold water or boiling water: Supplies the moisture that softens the toasted bread.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.