Effervescing Lemonade

Ingredients

• half-pint of juice
• one pound of loaf sugar
• about as much carbonate of soda

Method

1. 1

   Squeeze the juice out of lemons to make half-pint.

2. 2

   Strain into a clean saucepan, add sugar, and heat until dissolved.

3. 3

   Cool, then pour into a bottle.

4. 4

   For use, mix a tablespoonful with cold water and stir in carbonate of soda.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Effervescing Lemonade. — Squeeze the juice out of as many lemons as will make a half-pint of juice. Strain it into a clean enamelled saucepan, and add one pound of loaf sugar; stand it on the fire until the sugar is entirely dissolved. Allow it to get cool, and pour it into a bottle or decanter. When required for use put about a tablespoonful into a tumbler, and fill up to threequarters of the tumbler with cold water. Stir into the tumbler about as much carbonate of soda

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