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Lemonade

From Cookery for little girls (1910).

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A historical recipe

Cookery for little girls, by Olive Hyde. [from old catalog] Foster (1910).

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. a half cupful of sugar
  2. eight glasses of water

Method

  1. A most refreshing beverage on a very warm 143 day is a lemonade made from the juice of two lemons, a half cupful of sugar and eight glasses of water, to which is added the pulp of a small grapefruit that has been removed with a sharpedged teaspoon.
  2. Fill up glasses with shaved ice.

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From Cookery for little girls (1910), printed page 137, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cookeryforlittle00fost

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.