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Iced tea

From The army cook (1942).

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A historical recipe

The army cook, by United States. War Department, author (1942).

United States

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

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. 1 gallon of water
  2. 15 ounces of tea

Method

  1. Use 1 gallon of water and 15 ounces of tea and prepare as for hot tea.
  2. Cool and just before serving add sufficient cold water to make 10 gallons.
  3. The juice of 18 lemons may be addeél, if desired.
  4. Any left-over lemonade may be added to the iced tea.

Plating

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Credit

From The army cook (1942), printed page 235, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/14110590R.nlm.nih.gov

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.