Name: Lemon Extract
Ingredients: rind of 3 lemons; ½ pint alcohol; 1 ounce lemon oil

Lemon Extract

Ingredients

rind of 3 lemons
½ pint alcohol
1 ounce lemon oil

Directions

Put the rind of 3 lemons into ½ pint of alcohol.
After 4 days, pour off the mixture into a bottle.
Add 1 ounce of lemon oil to the bottle.

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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What each ingredient does

Lemon rind: Supplies the aromatic oils that flavour the alcohol during the steeping period.
Alcohol: Acts as a solvent that draws flavour compounds out of the lemon rind.
Lemon oil: Adds concentrated lemon aroma and flavour to the finished extract.

“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.