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Lemonade

From The Huntingdon cook book (1896).

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A historical recipe

The Huntingdon cook book, by St. Andrew's Church (Huntingdon, Québec) (1896).

Canada

Known as a Canadian 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. one pint of sugar
  2. a quart of water

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. Put one pint of sugar and a quart of water on to boil ;
  2. add to it the yellow rind of two lemons ;
  3. boil five minutes and strain.
  4. When cold add the juice of six lemons and sufficient water to make it palatable.
  5. Add more sugar if not sweet enough.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
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Credit

From The Huntingdon cook book (1896), printed page 4, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_huntingdon-cook-book_TX7156H851896-21167

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.