Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut the bread into thin slices.
Toast the slices slowly and evenly until thoroughly dry and well browned, avoiding scorching.
Steep and serve
Pour cold water over the toasted bread.
Let it stand for 1 hour.
Drain off the water and serve as a drink.
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
- Graham bread
- Toasted bread provides the browned, toasty flavour that the steeping water picks up.
- Cold water
- Slowly extracts flavour and colour from the toasted bread without bitterness from heat.
The step that matters
Toasting the bread. Toast slowly and evenly until thoroughly dry and well browned. Scorched spots add bitter, burnt flavours that carry into the water, while under-toasted bread gives a flat, pale drink.
“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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