Why it works: Lime and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 115 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓
Lime Water
Ingredients
Directions
Place the unslaked lime in an earthen vessel.
Cover it with 2 quarts of boiled water.
Stir thoroughly and allow to settle.
Pour off the clear liquid.
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.
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Lime + walnuttop 9% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together115 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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What each ingredient does
- Unslaked lime
- Reacts with water to form calcium hydroxide, the alkaline compound that gives the liquid its character.
- Boiled water
- Dissolves the lime to produce the clear alkaline liquid.
The step that matters
Pour off the clear liquid. Pour off only the clear liquid and leave the settled solids behind. Undissolved lime and particles sink to the bottom, and disturbing them makes the 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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