Name: Flax Seed Lemonade
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons flax seed; 1 pint boiling water; juice of 1 lemon; sweetener to taste

Flax Seed Lemonade

Ingredients

2 tablespoons flax seed
1 pint boiling water
juice of 1 lemon
sweetener to taste

Directions

Make the flax infusion

Combine flax seed and boiling water in a bowl.
Let the mixture stand for several hours.
Strain the mixture to remove the flax seeds.

Finish the lemonade

Add the juice of a lemon and sweeten 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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What each ingredient does

Flax seed: Releases a mucilage into the water that gives the drink a slightly thick, silky body.
Lemon juice: Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the sweetener.

“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.