Name: Cinnamon Wait'r
Ingredients: 1 pound cinnamon; 2 gallons water

Cinnamon Wait'r

Ingredients

1 pound cinnamon
2 gallons water

Directions

Bruise or break the cinnamon.
Infuse the cinnamon in water for 2 days.
Alternatively, simmer the cinnamon in the still for 30 minutes, returning what comes over.
Filter the mixture through a flannel bag or blotting paper when cold.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cinnamon: Provides the flavour and aroma that the water draws out of the bark.
Water: Acts as the solvent that extracts the cinnamon's flavour during infusion or simmering.

“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.