Lemonade

Ingredients

• the juice of a lemon
• two tablespoonfuls of sugar
• one-half pint of water

Method

1. 1

   Combine the juice of a lemon with two tablespoons of sugar and one-half pint of water.

2. 2

   Adjust sweetness to taste.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bachelors cupboard (1906) by A. Lyman Phillips, page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lemonades of claret, pineapple, orange, and raspberry flavors to be bought, as well as Green Ginger Cordial, Montserrat Lime Juice, and raspberry vinegars, with fruit syrup of any desired flavor. Combined with Iced tea, coffee, or cocoa, some of these fruit flavors are delicious. Root beer is a mid- summer beverage that is not only refreshing, but pos- sesses medicinal powers; and Iced ginger ale served with a cream rabbit makes a temperate combination that Is almost as toothsome as the ale-mixed variety. " Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink! ** GINGER Is a mild drink that Is little known; try LEMON- it. Have in a glass a teaspoonful of pow- ■^^^ dered sugar, add to It the juice of half a lemon and fill the glass with ginger ale that is well Iced. SODA This Is a most Innocent drink, despite COCKTAIL its name, and one that a tw^o-year-old may not hesitate to Imbibe. Fill up a long glass, then, with lemon soda, the bottled variety, and in it dash a little raspberry syrup, and top off with a thin slice of orange. FARMER'S Mayhap you may be going to have a real, DELIGHT old-fashioned country picnic, at which rural dainties are served. They deserve to be washed down with the delight of the farmer, who swallows copious drafts of this In the hayfield on a hot July 178 A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Temperance Drinks afternoon. It's nothing less than the " sweetened water " with which Plupy Shute regaled his friends up in Exeter in the days when the " Real Boy " penned that famous diary. Water is the basis, ginger the flavor, and molasses the sweetener. They are mixed to taste in a great stone jug, which is corked and set In a convenient brook to keep cool. LEMON- '' Pooh! " I hear you say in disgust. " As ADE if any man couldn't make lemonade without being told." But as this book may fall into the hands of a Hottentot or Malay or some other hot-house variety of bachelor, I will set down the proportion of the juice of a lemon to tw^o tablespoonfuls of sugar and one-half pint of water

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