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Toast Water

From A year's cookery, 1880

Serves 2

Best served cold.

Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 137. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Toast Water. — This simple beverage is rarely well made. Take a slice of stale bread (crust is to be preferred, as the crumb will soon turn sour), toast it very slowly all through without burning it at all. Pour over it a quart of boiling water

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