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Tamarind Water

A beverage made by steeping preserved tamarinds in boiling water, then straining and serving hot or chilled with ice.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pour boiling water over the preserved tamarinds.

  2. Let it stand for 30 minutes, keeping it hot.

Strain and serve

  1. Strain off the water.

  2. Serve hot or allow to cool and serve with cracked ice.

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

Preserved tamarinds
Supply the sour, fruity flavour that dissolves into the water.
Boiling water
Extracts flavour and soluble compounds from the tamarind pulp into the liquid.

“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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