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Toast Water

Toast Water is a drink made by soaking toasted bread in cold water for an hour.

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 slowly until it is a pretty brown.

  2. Place the toasted bread in a pint of cold water.

  3. Let it stand for one hour before using.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Bread
Toasting browns the bread, and its toasted flavour and colour pass into the water.

The step that matters

Toast the bread slowly until it is a pretty brown. Browning develops the toasty, roasted flavour and colour that the water will take on. Pale bread gives a weak flavour, and bread that is burnt turns bitter and harsh.

“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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