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Gum-water

A beverage made by dissolving gum arabic in cold water, optionally flavored with lemon peel.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Gum-water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the gum arabic with cold water.

  2. Dissolve the gum in 2 pints of cold water by maceration.

  3. Add lemon peel for flavor if desired.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Gum arabic
Forms a viscous, binding solution that gives the water body and helps stabilize mixtures.

“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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