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Flaxseed Lemonade

A cold beverage made by steeping flaxseed in boiling water, then adding lemon juice and sweetener.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flaxseed and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 151 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Flaxseed Lemonade

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over flaxseed in a covered pitcher.

  2. Add the juice of two lemons.

  3. Sweeten to taste.

  4. Steep for two hours.

  5. If the mixture is too thick, add cold water to reach the desired consistency.

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.

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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.

  1. Flaxseed + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Flaxseed
Releases a gel-like mucilage into the water, giving the lemonade its thick, body-rich texture.
Lemon juice
Adds sharp acidity and bright flavour that cuts through the sweetness.
Sweetener
Adds sweetness to balance the tartness of the lemon juice.

The step that matters

Steep for two hours. Flaxseed releases its thickening mucilage gradually as it soaks in hot water. Stopping early leaves the lemonade thin, while the covered pitcher holds heat that helps this release along.

“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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