Effervescing Soda
From The new practical housekeeping, 1890
Serves 1
This is for immediate use or can be stored in bottles.
Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 162. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Effervescing Soda. — Mix half a teaspoon powdered bicarbonate of soda thoroughly with two tablespoons syrup of any flavor liked ; add gix or eight times aa much cold water ; wTiile etirring it mix in half teaspoon powdered tartaric acid and drink at once. This in for immediate use.' Or mix the syrup and waterin above proportiona and fill into bottles; put in each bottle half a drachra each of crystal- lized bicarbonate of potassa
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