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Lemonade

From The New York cook book (1889).

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A historical recipe

The New York cook book, by Marie Martinelo (1889).

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 pint of water

Method

  1. Three lemons to a pint of water, makes strong lemonade ;
  2. sweeten to your taste.
  3. This is the best beverage for parties : cool, refreshing, pleasant and salubrious.
  4. ORANGEADE.
  5. — Eoll and press the juice from the oranges in the same way as from lemons.
  6. It requires less sugar than lemonade.
  7. The water must be pure and cold, and then there can be nothing more delicious than these two kinds of drink.

Plating

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Credit

From The New York cook book (1889), printed page 107, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/newyorkcookbookc00mart

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.