Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast the bread until very brown and hard, but do not burn it.
Place the toasted bread in a jug.
Pour the cold water over the bread.
Let it soak for about 1 hour.
Strain the mixture and use the liquid.
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
- Toasting browns the crust, and soaking releases its toasted flavor and color into the water.
- Cold water
- Acts as the solvent that slowly draws flavor out of the toasted bread.
The step that matters
Toast the bread until very brown and hard, but do not burn it.. Browning through toasting creates roasted, caramelized flavors that carry into the water. Burnt crust turns bitter and harsh, and that bitterness then passes into the liquid.
“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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