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Toast Water

A beverage made by steeping a slice of toast in boiling water, optionally flavored with lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Toast Water

Toast Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour the boiling water over the toast.

  2. Allow it to stand until cold.

  3. Strain the mixture.

  4. If desired, add a little lemon juice.

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

Toast
Crisp, well-toasted bread gives the water its toasty flavour and light colour as it steeps.
Boiling water
Extracts flavour and aroma from the toast as it steeps.

“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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