Lime Water
Ingredients
Directions
Place the lime in a large stone jar.
Slowly pour the hot water over the lime.
Stir thoroughly and let it settle.
Stir again two or three times over the next 24 hours.
Carefully bottle all the clear liquid that can be poured off.
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 lime
- Supplies calcium hydroxide, which dissolves into the water to make the clear, alkaline liquid.
- Hot water
- Acts as the solvent that draws lime's compounds into solution.
The step that matters
Carefully bottle all the clear liquid that can be poured off. Lime that has not fully settled leaves particles suspended in the water, which cloud the liquid. Pouring slowly and leaving the sediment behind keeps the clear solution separate from 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.
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