Lime Water
Ingredients
Directions
Make the lime water
Stir the lime into the boiled water thoroughly.
Cover the mixture to keep out particles.
After 12 hours, pour off the water and discard it.
Repeat and bottle
Add another ½ gallon of boiled water to the remaining lime.
Stir for 3 minutes and cover again for 12 hours.
Carefully pour off the clear fluid and bottle it for future 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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Freshly-slaked lime
- Dissolves into the water as calcium hydroxide, which gives the clear solution its alkaline character.
The step that matters
Carefully pour off the clear fluid. Undissolved lime particles settle to the bottom, and pouring too vigorously stirs them back in. The clear liquid above the sediment is the saturated solution, so disturbing it leaves the bottled lime water cloudy and gritty.
“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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