A Fine Temperance Beverage

Ingredients

• the juice of a dozen lemons
• one pound and a half of double refined sugar
• a picked quart of raspberries or strawberries
• half a pound of sugar
• three quarts of ice water

Method

1. 1

   To the juice of a dozen lemons, add one and a half pounds of double refined sugar and a picked quart of raspberries or strawberries.

2. 2

   Pare a ripe pineapple and slice it, putting half a pound of sugar over it.

3. 3

   Stir the lemon juice with the sugar, crush in the berries, slightly bruise the pineapple, and chop it up in small pieces.

4. 4

   Put the lemon juice in a large punch bowl, add three quarts of ice water, then add the strawberry and pineapple juice, stir until all the sugar is dissolved, and set on ice.

5. 5

   Serve in punch glasses.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A FINE TEMPERANCE BEVERAGE. To the juice of a dozen lemons put one pound and a half of double refined sugar, and a picked quart of rasp- berrîes or strawberries ; pare a ripe pineapple and slice it, put over it half a pound of sugar, stir the lemon juîce with the sugar, crush in the berrîes slightly bruise the pineapple and chop it up in small pièces. Put the lemon juice in a large punch bowl, add to it three quarts of ice water

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