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Lemonade

From Crumbs from our friends' tables (1923).

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A historical recipe

Crumbs from our friends' tables, by Disciples of Christ (1923).

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. 1 cup sugar

Cook safely

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.

Method

  1. 1 cup sugar, 1-3 cup lemon juice, 1 pt.
  2. water.
  3. Make syrup by boiling sugar and water 12 minutes, add fruit juice, cool, and dilute with ice-water to suit individual tastes.
  4. Lemon syrup may be bottled and kept on hand to use as needed.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From Crumbs from our friends' tables (1923), printed page 31, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/crumbsfromourfri00disc

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.