Lime-water to Make
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Put the lime into an earthen pot.
Pour a little of the water onto the lime and stir with a stick.
Slake the lime
As the lime slakes, gradually add the remaining water. Add water slowly to prevent the lime from flying about.
After 3-4 hours, pour off the clear liquid into 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 slaked lime, which dissolves to make the alkaline liquid.
- Water
- Slakes the lime and dissolves the resulting compound, producing the clear liquid.
The step that matters
Adding the water gradually. Slaking unslaked lime releases a lot of heat and can make it spatter violently. Adding water slowly keeps the reaction controlled and the lime from flying about.
“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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