Delicious Milk-Lemonade
A historical recipe from Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking, by Catharine Esther Beecher (1873).
A historical recipe
Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness, by Catharine Esther Beecher (1873). Project Gutenberg eBook #55734.
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
- a pint of sherry wine
- six ounces loaf-sugar
- a pint of water poured
- a pint of cold 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
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- Half a pint of sherry wine and as much lemon-juice, six ounces loaf-sugar, and a pint of water poured in when boiling.
- Add not quite a pint of cold milk, and strain the whole.
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