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Toast Water

A drink made by steeping toast in sterile water, optionally flavored with citrus peel and sweetener.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Toast Water

Toast Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cool one pint of sterile water.

  2. Add two slices of well-browned toast.

  3. Strain the mixture and serve.

  4. Optionally, flavor with a little orange or lemon peel and sweeten if desired.

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

Well-browned toast
Provides toasted, caramelized flavor and aroma to the water as it steeps.

“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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