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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. 250 ml water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Accurately weigh approximately 5 g of the lake into a 500 ml beaker.
  2. Add 250 ml water and 60 ml concentrated hydrochloric acid.
  3. Boil until all the colour and alumina has dissolved.
  4. Filter through a tared No.
  5. 4 sintered glass crucible.
  6. Wash the crucible with hot 0.5% hydrochloric acid until the washings are colourless.
  7. Dry the crucible to constant weight at 135*.
  8. Express the weight of residue as a percentage of the weight taken.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan