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Mint Lemonade

From Good luck cook book (1912).

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A historical recipe

Good luck cook book, by Ill. St. Paul's Episcopal church. Week end club. [from old catalog] DeKalb (1912).

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. 3 cups of sugar
  2. 3 quarts of water

Method

  1. Mrs.
  2. John G.
  3. Cook.
  4. Juice of 4 lemons.
  5. 3 cups of sugar.
  6. Juice of 2 oranges.
  7. 3 quarts of water.
  8. Small bunch of fresh mint Put a small sprig of mint in (bruised).
  9. each glass.

Plating

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Credit

From Good luck cook book (1912), printed page 92, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/goodluckcookbook00deka

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.