Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Make the toast
Toast the bread until brown.
Place the toasted bread in a jar or jug.
Infuse and strain
Pour 1 quart of water over the toast.
Let it stand for 1.5 hours.
Strain the water into a decanter.
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
- Quartern wheat loaf
- Toasting browns the bread, adding roasted flavor and aroma that the water picks up.
- Water
- Soaks up the toast's flavor and carries it out of the bread.
The step that matters
Toast the bread until brown. Browning develops roasted flavor through Maillard reactions. Toast that is burnt rather than browned turns bitter, and that bitterness passes into the water.
“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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