Name: Cinnamon Water
Ingredients: 20 oz. fine cinnamon (bruised); 2 gallons water

Cinnamon Water

Ingredients

20 oz. fine cinnamon (bruised)
2 gallons water

Directions

Bruise the cinnamon.
Combine the bruised cinnamon and water in a distillation apparatus.
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 aroma that the water carries over during distillation.
Water: Carries the cinnamon's aromatic compounds over as the distillate.

“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.