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Toast Water

A beverage made by soaking toasted bread in cold water and straining the liquid.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Toast Water

Toast Water

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Toast the bread until very brown and hard, but do not burn it.

  2. Break the toasted bread into a jug of cold water.

Soak and strain

  1. Let it soak for one hour.

  2. Strain the mixture and use the water.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Crusty bread
Toasting dries and browns the bread, giving the water its colour and toasty flavour.
Cold water
Carries the flavour out of the toasted bread as it soaks, becoming the liquid you use.

The step that matters

Toasting the bread. Bread toasted until very brown and hard gives deep flavour, but burnt pieces taste bitter and spoil the water. Toast evenly until dark golden-brown and stop before any black areas appear.

“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.

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