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Toast Water

Toast water is made by steeping toasted bread in boiling water and straining the liquid.

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

Toast Water

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the toast

  1. Cut the crusty bread into pieces weighing about ¼ pound.

  2. Toast the bread on a toasting fork until it is a rich brown color.

  3. Place the toasted bread in a jug or large pitcher.

Steep and bottle

  1. Pour 3 quarts of boiling water over the toasted bread.

  2. Cover the jug with paper until it cools.

  3. Strain the mixture to remove the bread, as leaving it in will cause fermentation.

  4. Bottle the toast water; it will keep for several days.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Crusty bread
Toasting browns the bread, and its toasted flavor and color carry into the water.
Boiling water
Extracts flavor and color from the toasted bread as it steeps and cools.

The step that matters

Strain out the bread. Leaving the bread in the liquid can cause fermentation, so it should be removed before bottling to keep the toast water fresh.

“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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