To Make Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast the slice of stale bread until dark brown, but do not overdo it.
Place the toasted bread in a jug and pour boiling water over it.
Cover the jug and let it cool.
Once cold, strain the mixture into another jug.
Use the toast water within a few hours.
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
- Stale bread
- Toasted bread gives the water a browned, roasted flavour and a light toasty aroma.
- Boiling water
- Extracts the toasted flavour and colour from the bread into a clear liquid.
The step that matters
Toasting the bread until dark brown. Toasting builds the roasted flavour through browning, but if the bread goes past dark brown it turns bitter and burnt, and that bitterness passes into the water.
“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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