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Lemonade

From The royal cookery book (le livre de cuisine) (1883).

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A historical recipe

The royal cookery book (le livre de cuisine), by Jules Gouffé and Alphonse Gouffé (1883).

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 1 ingredient

  1. 2 quarts of water

Method

  1. Steep the peel of G lemons in 1 quart of s}Tup 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) (1883), printed page 558, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21538025

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.