How to Make Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast a piece of bread thoroughly browned to its centre without being burnt.
Put it into a jug and pour boiling water upon it, then cover over.
Allow it to stand and steep until it has cooled.
It will then be fit to drink.
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. See the original page.
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What each ingredient does
- Bread
- Toasting browns the bread, giving the steeped water a toasty, roasted flavour.
The step that matters
Toasting the bread to the centre. The bread must be browned all the way through, not just on the surface, because the flavour comes from the toasted crumb steeping in the water. Burnt parts would make the drink bitter.
“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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