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Lime Water

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add 2 tablespoons of fine lime to 1 quart of boiling water.

  2. Mix well and let the lime settle to the bottom.

  3. Pour the clear water into a bottle.

  4. Cork the bottle and keep for use.

  5. Take 1 tablespoon in milk for indigestion.

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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