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Lavender Water

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

Lavender Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather lavender flowers when fully ripe, before they open.

  2. Pick the flowers from the stalks.

  3. Soak the flowers in a tub with just enough water to cover them for three days, stirring often.

  4. Fill a still three-quarters full with the mixture and distill slowly.

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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