How Do You Make Lime Water?
Ingredients
Directions
Place slaked lime and water in a corked bottle.
Shake thoroughly two or three times during the first hour.
Allow the lime to settle for 24 hours.
Carefully pour or siphon off the clear fluid for use.
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
- Slaked lime
- Dissolves into the water to form the clear, mildly alkaline liquid that is the final product.
The step that matters
Carefully pour or siphon off the clear fluid. Undissolved lime settles as sediment at the bottom of the bottle. Disturbing it or pouring too roughly stirs it back up, clouding the liquid and contaminating the clear solution.
“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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