Lime Juice and Soda
Ingredients
Directions
In a tumbler, combine 2 tablespoons of lime juice.
Fill the glass halfway with water, being careful not to overfill.
Stir in 1 teaspoon of fruit salt using a porcelain or bone spoon.
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
- Lime juice
- Provides the sharp acidity that gives the drink its tart flavour and reacts with the fruit salt.
- Fruit salt
- Reacts with the lime juice to release carbon dioxide, creating the fizz in the drink.
The step that matters
Filling with water. Once the fruit salt reacts with the acid, the drink foams and fizzes up. Leaving the glass half full leaves room for that foam so it does not overflow.
“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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