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Lemonade

A historical recipe from A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907).

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A historical recipe

A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #71395.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. one quart of filtered water

Method

  1. Dissolve half-lb.
  2. of loaf-sugar in one quart of filtered water.
  3. Add the juice and the zests of the rinds of two lemons, and let infusion proceed in the cool for three hours.
  4. Pass the whole through a fine strainer;
  5. add one syphonful of seltzer water, and serve with a thin roundel of lemon in each glass.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #71395 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71395). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.