Juice
Lime Wash
Swank
Guyana
Lime juice, brown sugar and water stirred in a jug and drunk cold — the field-worker's drink of the coast.
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What it is
A closer look at Lime Wash.
Lime juice, brown sugar and water stirred in a jug and drunk cold — the field-worker's drink of the coast.
What to look for
Know it when you find it.
Made with local limes and unrefined sugar, so it comes out cloudy brown rather than pale. Sold in bottles at market stalls in the heat of the day.
Where it belongs
Origins and
traditions.
Food rarely respects a border. These are the places the dataset connects most strongly to Lime Wash.
Names around the table
One food, more than one name.
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