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Cracker Toast

A simple snack of buttered water crackers lightly salted.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cracker Toast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Split the water crackers in half.

  2. Spread the butter evenly on the split crackers.

  3. Sprinkle with salt.

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

Water crackers
Provide the crisp, dry base that the butter and salt sit on.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour and softening the crackers' crunch slightly.

“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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