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Lavender-water

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Lavender-water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick the lavender flowers from the stalks.

  2. Place the flowers in a cold still and add the water.

  3. Distill very slowly over a slow fire.

  4. After distillation, clean the still and return the lavender water to it.

  5. Distill the lavender water again as slowly as before.

  6. Bottle the double-distilled lavender water and cork it well until needed.

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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