Name: Lime-water
Ingredients: 8 ounces fresh-burned lime; 1 gallon boiling water

Lime-water

Ingredients

8 ounces fresh-burned lime
1 gallon boiling water

Directions

Pour boiling water over the fresh-burned lime in a container.
Cover the container tightly and let it cool.
Once cooled, transfer the liquid to a glass bottle.
Pour off the clear liquid when needed.

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

Fresh-burned lime: Provides calcium hydroxide, which dissolves into the water to make the alkaline solution.
Boiling water: Extracts the lime's compounds into solution and carries them out of the solid lime.

“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.