Essence of Ginger Drink
From The housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c, 1880
This drink is non-intoxicating and can be warming and invigorating.
Presented as published in 1880. 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 housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c (1880), page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
squeeze a lemon into a tumbler, add to it a little syrup or a little sugar, and a quarter of a pint of water. Stir it up, and see that the sugar is thoroughly dissolved, and then strain it through a small strainer, to get rid of the pips and pieces of pulp of the lemon. Add to this three or four, or even more, drops of essence of ginger. A wineglassful of this will be found warming, refreshing, and invigorating. Of course it is a non-intoxicant. Essence of ginger can also be used for flavouring puddings, but care should be taken that the essence is mixed with some fluid previous to its being added to the pudding. Were the essence of ginger dr
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