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Flaxseed Lemonade

A drink made by steeping flaxseed in boiling water, then sweetening and adding lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Flaxseed and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 151 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Flaxseed Lemonade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the flaxseed.

  2. In a saucepan, combine the flaxseed and boiling water.

  3. Cook just below boiling for 2 hours.

  4. Strain the mixture.

Finish

  1. Sweeten and add lemon juice to taste.

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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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. Flaxseed + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole flaxseed
Releases mucilage into the water, giving the drink its thick, slightly silky body.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the sweetener.

The step that matters

Cook just below boiling for 2 hours. Boiling vigorously can break up the seeds and make the liquid cloudy or bitter, while a gentle simmer slowly extracts the mucilage. Keeping the heat low and steady lets the seeds release their gel smoothly without scorching the liquid.

“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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