Known as a British 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. Printed in United Kingdom: that says where the book was made, not where the dish comes from.
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.
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Boil fine sugar in milk, and flavour with lemon.
This, cold, is a refreshment fit for children's balls, and is so used in France.
1085.
Eau Sucre.^^Sugar in boiling water.
This is a frugal beverage much used by French ladies, and considerod soporific.
1086.
Bum Shrub.
— This is made in the easy way by adding the juice and an infusion of the rind of Seville oranges to rum, with a little syrup and plain water or orange-flower-water.
Honey, raisin-wine, porter, citric acid, &c., are all employed in compound shrubs.
Brandy Shrub is made in the same manner.
It is best to buy these compound liquors rectified and distilled.
1087.
Ctirrant Shrub, — White or Bed, — is made by putting the juice of the fruit to rum or brandy, in the proportion of a pint of juice, or^ss, to a quart of spirits, and adding syrup to taste.
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