Name: Lime Watee
Ingredients: 1 stone of fresh unslacked lime (about the size of a half-peck measure); 4 gallons of hot water

Lime Watee

Ingredients

1 stone of fresh unslacked lime (about the size of a half-peck measure)
4 gallons of hot water

Directions

Place the lime in a large stone jar or unpainted pail.
Slowly pour the hot water over the lime, stirring thoroughly.
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.

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.