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Honey Water

A simple drink made by dissolving honey in boiling water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over honey.

  2. Stir until honey is dissolved.

  3. Let the mixture cool to room temperature.

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

Honey
Provides sweetness and dissolves into the water to flavour it.

“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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