Toast Water
Ingredients
Directions
Use well-dried and browned toast; break it into pieces.
Pour boiling water over the toast and cover.
Let it stand for 1 hour.
Strain the mixture and season with salt.
Serve hot or cold.
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
- Toast
- Browned toast gives the water its toasty, roasted aroma and flavour as it steeps.
The step that matters
Use well-dried and browned toast. Well-browned toast carries the roasted flavour into the water, while soft or pale toast gives a weak, bland result.
“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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