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Lemonade for Picnics or Private Parties

From 1892 Shepard Hardware Buffalo NY (1892).

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A historical recipe

1892 Shepard Hardware Buffalo NY, by New York USA Shepard Hardware Company of Buffalo (1892).

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. a pound of sugar

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. 74.
  2. Out lemons in small pieces ;
  3. put in press cylinder and press out the juice, using no cloth.
  4. To each quart of water and ice, use two large lemons and from one-quarter to one-third of a pound of sugar, according to taste.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
Source https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Credit

From 1892 Shepard Hardware Buffalo NY (1892), printed page 37, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/1892-shepard-hardware-buffalo-ny

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.