Name: To Make Lemon Extract
Ingredients: 1 pint alcohol; 2 ounces lemon oil

To Make Lemon Extract

Ingredients

1 pint alcohol
2 ounces lemon oil

Directions

Combine the alcohol and lemon oil in a jar.
Seal the jar and let it sit for five to six weeks.
Shake the jar occasionally during this time.

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

Alcohol: Dissolves the lemon oil and carries its flavor through the liquid.
Lemon oil: Supplies the concentrated lemon aroma that the extract is built on.

“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.