Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast the slice of bread slowly until it is crisp and a rich brown color, but not burnt.
Place the toasted bread into a quart jug of filtered water.
Let it stand for 1 hour, then strain the mixture.
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
- Old bread
- Toasted bread gives the water a mild toasty aroma and light brown flavor.
- Filtered water
- Water carries the flavor of the toasted bread once it steeps.
The step that matters
Toast the bread slowly. Slow toasting browns the bread evenly and builds flavor without bitterness. Burnt bread adds acrid, bitter notes to the water that cannot be removed by straining.
“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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