Lemon or Orange Shrub

Ingredients

• Take two lemons
• and six Seville oranges
• eight sweet oranges without lemons
• add three pounds of powdered loaf-sugar
• add two quarts of best Jamaica rum

Method

1. 1

   Take two lemons and six Seville oranges, or, if preferred, eight sweet oranges without lemons, grate off the rinds and squeeze out the juice, then for each quart of juice add three pounds of powdered loaf-sugar.

2. 2

   Stir the sugar till it is dissolved, and add two quarts of best Jamaica rum for each quart of juice.

3. 3

   Pour the mixture into a cask, and shake it three times a day for three weeks.

4. 4

   Let it stand in a cool place till clear.

5. 5

   Then filter, and bottle for use.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 236. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lemon or Orange Shrub. Take two lemons and six Seville oranges, or, if preferred, eight sweet oranges without lemons, grate oif the rinds and squeeze out the juice, then for each quart of juice add three pounds of powdered loaf-sugar. Stir the sugar till jit is dissolved, and add two quarts of best Jamaica rum

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