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Lemonade

From The royal cookery book (le livre de cuisine) (1868).

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A historical recipe

The royal cookery book (le livre de cuisine), by Jules Gouffé and Alphonse Gouffé (1868).

France

Known as a French 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 quart of syrup
  2. 2 quarts of water

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Syrup Source of iron

    Source of iron · 3.6 mg per 100 g, 26% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Iron contributes to normal cognitive function.
    • Iron contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Iron contributes to normal formation of red blood cells and haemoglobin.
    4 more authorised claims
    • Iron contributes to normal oxygen transport in the body.
    • Iron contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Iron contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Iron has a role in the process of cell division.

    Iron is a mineral that the body needs for growth and development. Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body, and myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen to muscles. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Syrup, Cane”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Method

  1. Steep the peel of 6 lemons in 1 quart of syrup at 35°;
  2. Press out the juice of the lemons;
  3. add 2 quarts of water, and filter the whole through a jelly-bag with some paper ;
  4. Strain the syrup through a silk sieve ;
  5. mix it with the filtered juice, and pour the Lemonade into glass jugs.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Vegetable peeler
  • Sieve
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Credit

From The royal cookery book (le livre de cuisine) (1868), printed page 671, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21505093

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.