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Berry Toast

Berry Toast is a warm toast topped with a heated berry mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Berry Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the berry sauce

  1. Drain the berries in a colander to separate the juice.

  2. Heat the juice in a saucepan until boiling.

  3. Mix cornstarch with a little water and add to the boiling juice to thicken.

  4. Stir in the berries and boil briefly to heat them.

Serve

  1. Serve the berry mixture hot over the toast.

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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What each ingredient does

Cornstarch
Thickens the boiling juice into a glossy, spoonable sauce as its starch swells with heat.
Berries
Provide the main fruit flavour and body of the topping once stirred into the sauce.

The step that matters

Adding the cornstarch slurry to the boiling juice. Cornstarch must be mixed with cold water first, otherwise it clumps. It thickens only when the liquid is boiling, so the juice needs to be bubbling when the slurry goes in and kept at a boil briefly to set.

“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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