Tamarind Water

Ingredients

• a teacupful of the dry or preserved fruit
• a large breakfast cupful of boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Put the tamarind into a bowl, pour over it the boiling water; break up the tamarind with a wooden spoon, and allow it to soak for five minutes.

2. 2

   Now with your fingers mash the fruit well, pass the mixture through a coarse cloth, and use the juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Anglo-Indian cookery at home (1895) by Henrietta A. Hervey, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tamarind Water.— Take, say, a teacupful of the dry or preserved fruit, put it into a bowl, and pour over it a large breakfast cupful of boiling water

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