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Improved Lemonade

From The Warren cook book (1888).

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A historical recipe

The Warren cook book, by Pa. Presbyterian church. Young ladies' missionary society. [from old catalog] Warren (1888).

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 1 ingredient

  1. two quarts of water

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Take the juice of six oranges, and the juice of six lemons, adding sugar to suit the taste.
  2. Put to this a quantity of pounded ice and some sliced pineapple, pouring over it two quarts of water.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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Credit

From The Warren cook book (1888), printed page 133, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/warrencookbook00warr_0

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.