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Lemon Extract

A liquid flavoring made by soaking lemon rind in alcohol.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Lemon Extract

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the lemon rind in the alcohol for a couple of days.

  2. Strain the mixture and bottle it for use.

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 lemon aroma and flavour that the alcohol draws out over the soaking period.
Alcohol
Acts as the solvent that extracts the flavour compounds from the lemon rind.

“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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