Lime Water
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Place the lime in a bottle with the cold water.
Shake the bottle well until the lime is dissolved.
Steep and bottle
Let it stand for 12 hours.
Pour the clear liquid into another bottle, avoiding the sediment.
Cork the bottle carefully.
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
- Provides the calcium hydroxide that gives the water its alkaline, slightly bitter character.
- Cold water
- Acts as the solvent that dissolves the lime over the standing period.
The step that matters
Pour off the clear liquid, leaving the sediment behind. Undissolved lime settles as sediment. Pouring carefully keeps the clear solution separate, so the lime water stays clear and the solids do not cloud it.
“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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