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Lemonade

From In the kitchen (1875).

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A historical recipe

In the kitchen, by Elizabeth Smith Miller (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.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a pound of sugar
  2. One quart of water

Method

  1. Half a pound of sugar.
  2. Cne gill of lemon-juice.
  3. One quart of water.
  4. Rasp two of the lemons with lumps of the sugar;
  5. if granulated sugar is used, grate two of the lemons, and leave the rind in the water for an hour or two, or steep it for five minutes.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Grater
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Credit

From In the kitchen (1875), printed page 523, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/inkitchen00mill_0

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.