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Clarified Lemonade

A historical recipe from The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory, by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady (1844).

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A historical recipe

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed., by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady (1844). Project Gutenberg eBook #29232.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a pound of sugar
  2. a pint of rich white wine
  3. a quart of boiling water
  4. a pint of boiling milk

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. Pare the rind of three lemons as thin as you can;
  2. put them into a jug, with the juice of six lemons, half a pound of sugar, half a pint of rich white wine, and a quart of boiling water.
  3. Let it stand all night.
  4. In the morning, add half a pint of boiling milk: then run it through a jelly-bag till quite clear.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Measuring jug
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory, by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady (1844). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #29232 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29232). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.