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Panada

Panada is a simple bread soup made by toasting stale bread, cutting into squares, seasoning with salt, and pouring boiling water over it.

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

Panada

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Toast the bread slices until they are a nice brown.

  2. Cut the toasted bread into 2-inch squares and place them in a bowl.

Season and soak

  1. Sprinkle the salt over the bread squares.

  2. Pour the boiling water over the bread.

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

Stale bread
Soaks up the boiling water and forms the soft, bulky body of the soup.

“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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