Toast and Water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast the slice of stale bread until golden brown.
Place the toasted bread in a cup and pour boiling water over it.
Let it steep for a few minutes before drinking.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Stale bread
- Toasting browns the bread, adding toasty aroma and flavor that infuse into the water.
- Water
- Hot water extracts the toasted flavors and aroma from the bread as it steeps.
The step that matters
Toast until golden brown. Toasting browns the bread through the Maillard reaction, which builds toasty flavor. Taking it past golden risks burnt, bitter notes that steep into the tea.
“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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