Name: Toast and Water
Ingredients: 1 crust of bread; 1 quart of cold water

Toast and Water

Ingredients

1 crust of bread
1 quart of cold water

Directions

Toast the crust of bread until brown on all sides in front of the fire.
Place the toasted crust in a jug and pour 1 quart of cold water over it.
Cover the jug with a cloth and let it sit for 30 minutes before serving.

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

Bread crust: Toasting browns the crust, giving the water a toasty, aromatic flavor.
Cold water: Water extracts flavor and color from the toasted crust, forming the 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.