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Canadian Toast

Canadian Toast is a buttered toast prepared by melting butter in boiling water and pouring over toasted bread.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Toast the bread slices until they are a bright, crisp brown.

  2. In a small basin, melt the butter in boiling water until it floats.

  3. Skim the butter off a spoonful at a time, leaving a small amount of water.

Finish and serve

  1. Pour the melted butter over each side of the toast until all the butter is used.

  2. Place the toast on a hot plate and put it in the oven for 5 minutes.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Stale tin loaf
Provides the sturdy base that holds the butter and crisps when toasted.
Salt butter
Adds moisture, richness and flavour, soaking into the toast as it melts.

The step that matters

Skimming the butter. Butter melted in boiling water separates into fat and water. Skimming off only the clear fat, and leaving the water behind, keeps the toast from becoming soggy.

“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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