Lime Water
Ingredients
Directions
Place 3 pounds of lime in a pail.
Pour in enough water to slack the lime.
Once dissolved, add 2 gallons of water.
Allow the mixture to cool and settle before use.
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
- Lime
- Provides calcium hydroxide, which dissolves into the water to make the alkaline solution.
- Water
- Slakes the lime and carries the dissolved calcium hydroxide as a clear liquid.
The step that matters
Allow the mixture to cool and settle before use. Undissolved lime particles sink as sediment, so using the liquid too early can carry grit along. Letting it settle lets the clear solution separate from the solids, and the cleaner liquid is the part used.
“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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