Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Make the toast water
Brown the slices of toast without burning them.
Cover the toast with enough boiling water to submerge them.
Cover closely and let steep until cold.
Strain the water and sweeten to taste.
Serve
Add a piece of ice to each glassful.
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
- Toast
- Browning adds toasted aroma and flavor that the water picks up during steeping.
- Boiling water
- Hot water extracts flavor and color from the toast, becoming the drink's base.
The step that matters
Brown the toast without burning it. Toasting drives browning reactions that build a nutty, toasted aroma. Burnt spots add bitter, acrid flavors that carry into the water and cannot be removed by sweetening.
“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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