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Toast Water

Toast Water is a beverage made by infusing toasted bread slices in cold water.

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

Toast Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Toast the bread slices thoroughly without burning them.

  2. Place the hot toasted bread in a quart pitcher.

  3. Pour cold water over the toasted bread to infuse flavor.

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

Bread
Toasting browns the slices, adding roasted, toasty flavor that the cold water draws out.

The step that matters

Toast the bread thoroughly without burning it. Browning through toasting creates roasted flavor compounds that dissolve into the water. Burnt bread adds bitter, acrid notes that spoil the drink.

“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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