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Cinnamon Watee

A beverage made by bruising cinnamon and distilling it with water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Cinnamon Watee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bruise the cinnamon finely.

  2. Combine the bruised cinnamon with 2 gallons of water.

  3. Distill the mixture to obtain 1 gallon of cinnamon water.

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

Cinnamon
Provides the main aroma and flavor that the distilled water carries.

“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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