Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Toast the stale bread slices until evenly brown, but not scorched.
Break the toast into small pieces and place 1 cup of it into a pitcher.
Steep and serve
Pour 3 cups of boiling water over the toast.
Let it stand for 10 minutes.
Strain the mixture and serve when cold.
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
- Toasted bread gives the water its browned, toasty flavour and aroma.
- Boiling water
- Hot water pulls flavour and colour out of the toasted bread as it steeps.
The step that matters
Toast the bread evenly, not scorched. Even browning gives a clean, toasty flavour. Scorched bread adds bitter, burnt notes that carry into the water and cannot be removed by straining.
“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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