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Lemonade

From The Huntingdon cook book (1902).

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A historical recipe

The Huntingdon cook book, by St. Andrew's Church (Huntingdon, Québec) (1902).

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 .
  5. and sufficient water to make it palatable.
  6. Add more sugar if He not sweet enough.
  7. F j Pra ~ 2 Ny / until the sugar is dissolved ;
  8. addtwo quarts of iced water and | strain.
  9. DRINKS.
  10. 13!

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
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Credit

From The Huntingdon cook book (1902), printed page 128, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_huntingdon-cook-book_TX7156H851902-20223

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.