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Lemonade from Preserved Lemon Juice

From Eating for strength (1875).

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A historical recipe

Eating for strength, by M. L. (Martin Luther) Holbrook (1875).

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.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. one pound of refined sugar
  2. a teaspoonful of salad-oil

Method

  1. Preserve your juice wlien lemons are plenty and cheap, by adding one pound of refined sugar to each pint of juice, stirring the mixture till dissolved, when it should be bottled.
  2. Put a teaspoonful of salad-oil on the top to keep out the air, then cork closely.
  3. When wanted for use, apply a bit of cotton to the oil to absorb it.
  4. To a goblet of water add sufficient of this juice to suit the taste.
  5. Every family should preserve lemon juice in this way for times of need.
  6. If hot lemonade is desired, use hot instead of cold water.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From Eating for strength (1875), printed page 96, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/eatingforstrengt00holb

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.