Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Toast the slice of stale bread slowly until golden brown, avoiding burning.
Let the toasted bread cool.
Steep and serve
Pour 1 quart of boiling water over the cooled toast.
Cover and let it stand until cold.
Strain through muslin before serving.
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 its browned, toasty flavour and aroma.
- Boiling water
- Hot water extracts flavour and colour from the toasted bread as it steeps.
The step that matters
Toasting the bread slowly until golden brown. Toasting slowly lets the bread brown evenly and develop toasty flavour; burnt spots add bitter, acrid notes that carry 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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