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Panada is a bread soup made by toasting stale bread, cutting into squares, seasoning with salt, and pouring boiling water over it.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Panada

Panada

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the crust from the bread and toast it until golden brown.

  2. Cut the toasted bread into 2-inch squares.

  3. Place the squares in a bowl and sprinkle salt over them.

  4. Pour 1 pint of boiling water over the bread.

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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What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Absorbs the boiling water and swells, giving the soup its thick, soft body.

“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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