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Orangeade or Lemonade

From The management of the sick room (1845).

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A historical recipe

The management of the sick room, by Lady of New York (1845).

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

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Squeeze the juice of two lemons or oranges, pour boiling water over half the peel of one, and cover it close.
  2. Boil a pint of water with as much sugar as will make a thin syrup, and skim it well.
  3. When all are cold mix the juice, the infusion, and the syrup with as much more water as will make a sherbet, and strain it through a jelly-bag.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve
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Credit

From The management of the sick room (1845), printed page 46, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/63750170R.nlm.nih.gov

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.