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Portable Lemonade

From The United States practical receipt book, or, complete book of reference, for the manufacture, tradesman, agriculturist (1845).

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A historical recipe

The United States practical receipt book, or, complete book of reference, for the manufacture, tradesman, agriculturist (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 2 ingredients

  1. a tumbler of lemonade
  2. a glass of water

Method

  1. 1.
  2. Tartaric acid, 1 ounce ;
  3. white sugar, 5 pounds ;
  4. essence of lemon, i qjince.
  5. Powder, and keep dry for use.
  6. A dessert-spoonful will malte a tumbler of lemonade.
  7. 2.
  8. Tartaric acid, 1 part;
  9. powdered white sugar, 90 parts;
  10. essence of lemon to flavour.
  11. Mix, and keep it in a bottle ;
  12. for use, put one full tea spoonful into a glass of water, and stir it until dissolved.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The United States practical receipt book, or, complete book of reference, for the manufacture, tradesman, agriculturist (1845), printed page 163, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/101662773.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.