toast-water

To make toast-water, the bread should be toasted on both sides very dry, and boiling water poured on it.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

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

The Damnation of Theron Ware 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.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

Or, toast-water may be substituted as a diluter of the milk.

The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother 1859

The drinks should consist of flaxseed tea, slippery-elm tea, toast-water, &c.

The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory. 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).

Canada for Gentlemen James Seaton Cockburn

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. "

Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834