Name: Peppermint-water
Ingredients: 1½ pounds dried peppermint or 3 drachms oil of peppermint; sufficient water

Peppermint-water

Ingredients

1½ pounds dried peppermint or 3 drachms oil of peppermint
sufficient water

Directions

Put sufficient water into the still to prevent burning.
Use either the dried peppermint or the oil of peppermint.
Distill one gallon.

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

Dried peppermint: Provides the aromatic flavour compounds that the water carries over during distillation.
Oil of peppermint: Supplies concentrated peppermint aroma in place of the dried herb.

“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.