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Bleaching with Chloride of Lime

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950. fmo · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Tea and lime work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 48 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Bleaching with Chloride of Lime

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve one tea-cupful of lime in three gallons of water; let stand tiU the water becomes clear; strain carefully; put the

  2. 164 MISCELLANEOUS EECIPES.

  3. goods to soak at night ; in the morning rub the stains ; if they are effaced, rinse thoroughly before washing. "Where the stains are very deep, it may require being soaked a longer time in a little stronger mixture.

By Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950. fmo. 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. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Tea + limetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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