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Lemonadp:

From House and home (1889).

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A historical recipe

House and home, by Marion Harland (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. three pints of water

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Peel six lemons ;
  2. roll and slice them, and pack them in a pitcher, alternately with sugar, allowing for each lemon two heaping tablespoonfuls.
  3. Cover, and set in a cold place for ten or fifteen minntes before adding three pints of water and a lump of ice.
  4. Stir well and long ;
  5. fill tumblers one-third the way to the top with cracked ice, and pour in the lemonade.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From House and home (1889), printed page 350, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/househomecomplet00harl_0

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.