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Lime Water to Mix with Milk

A mixture of quicklime and cold boiled water used to mix with milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Lime Water to Mix with Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place a piece of quicklime into a bottle.

  2. Fill the bottle with cold boiled water and shake well.

  3. Allow the mixture to stand until the water is clear.

  4. Carefully pour off the clear water without shaking again.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Quicklime
Reacts with water to form calcium hydroxide, which dissolves to make the clear alkaline solution.
Cold boiled water
Dissolves the calcium hydroxide from the quicklime to create the lime water.

The step that matters

Carefully pour off the clear water without shaking again. Shaking stirs up the undissolved solids that have settled at the bottom, which cloud the liquid. Pouring gently keeps the sediment behind so the lime water stays clear.

“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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