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Toast Water

A beverage made by steeping toasted bread in boiling water.

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

Toast Water

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the toast

  1. Toast the slice of bread slowly until golden brown, avoiding burning.

  2. Let the toasted bread cool.

Steep and strain

  1. Pour 1 quart of boiling water over the cooled bread.

  2. Cover and let it stand until cold.

  3. Strain the mixture through muslin 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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Toasted bread gives the water a golden, toasty flavour as its starches and sugars brown.

The step that matters

Toast the bread slowly. Toasting slowly browns the bread evenly for a toasty flavour. Burnt bread adds bitter, acrid notes that carry into the water and 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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