Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast the bread until very dark brown, but do not burn.
Place the toasted bread in a pitcher.
Pour the boiling water over the bread.
Cover the pitcher and let it cool in the refrigerator.
Strain the mixture before serving.
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
- Toasting browns the bread, giving the water its deep, toasty flavor and color.
- Boiling water
- Hot water draws the toasty flavor and color out of the bread and becomes the drink.
The step that matters
Toasting the bread. Browning the bread develops rich, toasty flavors through caramelization and Maillard reactions. Burnt bread turns bitter, 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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