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Toast Water or Crust Coffee

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 2

Good warm with cream and sugar.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 328. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TOAST WATER, OR CRTJST COPFEE. Take stale pieces of crusts of bread, the end pieces of the loaf, toast them a nice, dark brown, care to be taken that they do not burn in the least, as that affects the flavor. Put the browned crusts into a large milk pitcher, and pour enough boiling water

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