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Lavender Water

Lavender water is made by distilling lavender neps with water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Lavender Water

Lavender Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 12 pounds of lavender neps with 1 quart of water in a cold still.

  2. Distill the mixture.

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

Lavender neps
Provides the aromatic oils that give the water its floral scent and flavor.

“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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