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Tamarind Water

A beverage made by steeping preserved tamarinds in boiling water, then straining and serving hot or chilled with ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Tamarind Water

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tamarind water

  1. Pour boiling water over the tamarinds.

  2. Let it stand for 30 minutes, keeping it hot.

  3. Strain off the water.

Serve

  1. Serve hot or cool with cracked ice.

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

Preserved tamarinds
Provide the sour, fruity flavour that the soaking water carries into the drink.
Boiling water
Dissolves the tamarind pulp and flavour compounds, extracting them into the liquid.

“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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