Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast the bread until golden brown, but do not burn it.
Place the toasted bread into a quart jug.
Fill the jug with boiling water.
Strain the mixture when it has cooled.
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 gives the bread a browned, nutty flavour that carries into the water.
- Boiling water
- Hot water extracts flavour and aroma from the toasted bread as it steeps.
The step that matters
Toast the bread until golden brown, but do not burn it.. Browning builds the toasty flavour, but burnt bread turns bitter and carries that bitterness into the water. Stop at golden brown.
“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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