Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast the slices of bread until they are quite brown.
Place the toasted bread into a pitcher.
Pour boiling water over the toasted bread.
Let it steep for a few minutes.
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
- Slices of bread
- Toasting browns the bread, and the browned crust gives the drink its toasty aroma and colour.
- Boiling water
- Hot water extracts flavour and colour from the toasted bread as it steeps.
The step that matters
Toast the bread until quite brown. Browning during toasting creates the roasted, toasty flavour compounds that define the drink. Pale toast gives a weak, flat taste, so the bread should be properly browned before it goes 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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