Name: Lemon Extract
Ingredients: peel of 3 lemons; ½ cup alcohol

Lemon Extract

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

peel of 3 lemons
½ cup alcohol

Directions

Make the extract

Grate the peel of 3 lemons.
Combine the grated peel with ½ cup alcohol in a jar.
Seal the jar and let it sit for a few days to infuse.

Use

Use sparingly for flavoring cakes and cookies.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Lemon peel: Supplies the aromatic oils that flavor the alcohol as it steeps.
Alcohol: Extracts the lemon's fragrant oils, which alcohol dissolves more readily than water.

“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.