Name: Water Toast
Ingredients: 1 slice of toast; ¼ teaspoon salt; butter

Water Toast

Ingredients

1 slice of toast
¼ teaspoon salt
butter

Directions

Boil water in a saucer and add salt.
Using two forks, place the slice of toast in the boiling water. Turn the toast over and remove it to a serving plate.
Spread butter on the toast and serve while hot.

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

Toast: Provides the base that soaks up the salted water and then carries the butter.
Butter: Adds richness and fat that coats the softened toast and carries flavour.

“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.