To Make Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast slices of bread until brown.
Place toasted bread into a pitcher.
Pour boiling water over the bread and let 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.
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What each ingredient does
- Slices of bread
- Toasting browns the bread, giving the water a toasty, roasted aroma and flavor.
- Boiling water
- Hot water extracts flavor and aroma compounds from the toasted bread as it steeps.
The step that matters
Pour boiling water over the bread and let steep. Water that is not hot enough extracts flavor slowly and weakly. Using boiling water and allowing time to steep draws out the toasty compounds from the bread.
“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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