Lime Water
Ingredients
Directions
Make the mixture
Place the lime in a large stone jar or unpainted pail.
Slowly pour the hot water over the lime, stirring thoroughly.
Settle and bottle
Let the mixture settle.
Stir the mixture 2 or 3 times over the next 24 hours.
Carefully bottle all the clear liquid that can be poured off.
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
- Fresh unslacked lime
- Reacts with water to release alkaline calcium compounds that dissolve into the liquid, giving lime water its character.
- Hot water
- Acts as the solvent that takes up the dissolved lime, and warmth speeds the dissolving.
The step that matters
Carefully bottle the clear liquid. Undissolved lime particles settle as sediment at the bottom. Disturbing or pouring too far down the vessel stirs them back up and clouds the liquid, so pour off only the clear top layer.
“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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