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Lemonade with Fruit

From The household companion (1909).

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A historical recipe

The household companion, by Johnson, Alice A., [from old catalog] ed and Hartshorne, Henry, 1823-1897, [from old catalog] joint ed (1909).

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 gallon of water
  2. two teacups of sugar

Method

  1. Use six lemons to a gallon of water ;
  2. squeeze the juice from lemons and add two teacups of sugar ;
  3. dissolve and strain.
  4. Then add juice of fruit, either chetiies or raspberries, or any other fruit you like as a variety.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Sieve
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Credit

From The household companion (1909), printed page 74, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/householdcompani00john

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.