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Cracker Panada

A sweet beverage made by boiling crackers in water, then straining and sweetening with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cracker Panada

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Break the crackers into pieces.

Cook

  1. Boil the pieces in water for 15 minutes.

  2. Remove from heat and let stand for 3-4 minutes.

Strain and season

  1. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve.

  2. Season with sugar.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Hard crackers
Starch from the crackers thickens the water as it cooks, giving the panada its body.

The step that matters

Boiling the crackers for 15 minutes. Heating the cracker starch in water causes it to swell and thicken the liquid. Boiling too briefly leaves the panada thin, while boiling too long can make it overly thick and gluey.

“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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