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Toast and Water

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Toast and Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Toast the bread slices on both sides until golden brown.

  2. Pour cold water over the toasted bread and cover tightly for one hour, or use boiling water and let it cool.

  3. For fruit waters, pour boiling water over sliced preserved or fresh fruits, or squeeze out the juice, boil it with sugar, and add water.

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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