Toast Water

To make toast-water, the bread should be toasted on both sides very dry, and boiling water poured on it. ❋ Elizabeth E. Lea (N/A)

Alice came up a number of times during the day to ask how he felt, and to bring him broth or toast-water. ❋ Harold Frederic (1877)

After reaction has taken place, the sweating should be maintained for twelve hours, and the patient should drink slippery-elm tea and toast-water, and partake sparingly of soft toasted bread and chicken broth. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

Or, toast-water may be substituted as a diluter of the milk. ❋ Unknown (1859)

The drinks should consist of flaxseed tea, slippery-elm tea, toast-water, &c. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)

I do not even remember, unless you tell me, whether they were long or short; and, except for my consciousness of never having written in a strain of trifling or levity, or otherwise than in a manner calculated to elevate and improve the minds of everyone but my hearers, I should be almost led to think I had been guilty of excesses in the way of toast-water or gruel previous to writing them (tea-totaller you see). ❋ James Seaton Cockburn (N/A)

It is the only way, when a man has this vast labor of speechifying to do; and indeed there is no possibility of keeping up a jolly countenance for such a length of time except on toast-water. " ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)