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Flaxseed Lemonade

A chilled beverage made by steeping flaxseed in boiling water, then adding lemon juice and sweetening with rock candy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 the flaxseed in a container.

  2. Add the lemon juice and cover tightly.

  3. Let steep for 3 hours.

  4. Sweeten with rock candy to taste.

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

Whole flaxseed
Its mucilage thickens the water as it steeps, giving the lemonade a slightly viscous body.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the sweetness of the rock candy.
Rock candy
Adds sweetness, which is adjusted to taste at the end.

The step that matters

Letting it steep for 3 hours. Flaxseed releases its soothing mucilage slowly into the water. Steeping for less time gives a thin drink with little body, while the covered container keeps the water hot and extracts more of the gel.

“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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