Lime Water
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.
Prepare the lime
Place the lime in a large stone jar or unpainted pail.
Slowly pour the hot water over the lime, stirring thoroughly.
Settle and bottle
Let the mixture settle, then stir again two or three times over the next 24 hours.
Carefully bottle the clear liquid that can be poured off.
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
- Fresh unslacked lime
- Reacts with water to form calcium hydroxide, which dissolves to make the alkaline liquid.
The step that matters
Carefully bottle the clear liquid. Undissolved lime particles settle as sediment. Calcium hydroxide dissolves only slightly, so the clear liquid above the sediment is the usable solution. Disturbing the sediment or pouring too early clouds the liquid with solids.
“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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