To Make Toast-water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast some slices of bread until they are quite brown.
Place the toasted bread in a pitcher.
Pour boiling water over the toasted bread. Let it steep.
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
- Slices of bread
- Toasting browns the bread, adding toasty aroma and flavour to the water.
The step that matters
Toasting the bread until quite brown. Browning develops the roasted, toasty flavour through the Maillard reaction and caramelisation. Pale toast gives a weak, bland water, while over-darkened toast can turn bitter.
“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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