Water Toast
Ingredients
Directions
Make the toast water
Toast the stale bread until quite brown.
Pour the boiling water over the toasted bread.
Let it stand for ten minutes.
Strain and season
Strain the mixture through cheesecloth.
Season with coarse sea salt to taste.
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 bread
- Toasting browns its surface, giving the water a toasty flavor and color.
- Boiling water
- Hot water extracts flavor and color from the toasted bread as it stands.
The step that matters
Toast the bread until quite brown. The toasted, browned surface carries most of the flavor into the water. Pale toast gives a weak, flat result, so the bread should be well browned before it is soaked.
“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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