Toast and Water
Ingredients
Directions
Toast the bread until brown but not burned.
Place the cold water in a jug.
Add the toasted bread to the jug and let it stand for a few hours.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Bread
- Toasted bread releases flavour and a light toasty aroma into the cold water.
The step that matters
Toast the bread until brown but not burned. Toasting browns the bread through the Maillard reaction, which builds toasty flavour. Burned bread turns bitter and carries that bitterness into the water, so stop when it is evenly brown.
“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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