Lime-water to Make
Ingredients
Directions
Slake the lime
Place 1 lb of unslaked lime in an earthen pot.
Slowly add ½ pint of water, stirring with a stick as the lime slakes.
Continue adding water gradually to prevent the lime from flying around.
Settle and store
After 3-4 hours, when the lime has settled, pour off the clear liquid.
Store the liquid in stoppered bottles away from light.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Unslaked lime
- Reacts with water to form calcium hydroxide, which dissolves to make the clear lime water.
The step that matters
Adding the water slowly. Slaking lime releases a lot of heat and can violently spatter or throw up dry lime particles if water is added too quickly. Adding it gradually and stirring keeps the reaction controlled and the lime contained.
“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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