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Toast Water

A beverage made by steeping toasted bread in boiling water.

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 it is a coffee color.

  2. Place the toasted bread in a bowl.

  3. Pour boiling water over the toasted bread.

  4. Let it steep for a few minutes.

Finish and serve

  1. Strain the liquid and discard the bread.

  2. Serve warm or let it cool and drink.

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

Toasted bread
Toasting browns the bread, and its sugars and starches release flavor and color into the hot water.
Boiling water
Hot water extracts flavor and color from the toasted bread during steeping.

The step that matters

Toast the bread until it is a coffee color. Underbaked bread gives a pale, bland liquid, while over-toasted bread turns bitter. Browning develops the roasted flavor that defines the drink.

“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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