Lemonade, Nourishing

Ingredients

• two fresh lemons
• five ounces of loaf sugar
• a pint of boiling water
• a quarter of a pint of lemon-juice
• a quarter of a pint of sherry
• four well-beaten eggs

Method

1. 1

   Rub the rind of the lemons with sugar, add boiling water, cool, strain, and mix in lemon juice, sherry, and beaten eggs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 839. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pint of boiling water. Cover closely, and let the lemonade stand for two hoxirs. At the end of that time strain, and it wUl be ready for use. Lemonade for invalids should be made with boiling water, as the unhealthy properties of the lemon are thus destroyed. A small quantity only of sugar should be put in, imless a desire to the contrary is expressed, as the acidity will most Hkely be agreeable. Probable cost, 2d. Sufficient for a pint of lemonade. Lemonade for Invalids (anoth^erway). — See Invalid's Lemonade. Lemonade Milk.— Dissolve half a povmd of loaf sugar in thi-ee-quarters of a pint of water. Add three-quarters of a pint of cold milk, a quarter of a pint of strained lemon- juice, and a quarter of a pint of any light wine. Mix thoroughly, and pass the liqiud through a jelly-bag. Time, half an hour to prepare. Probable cost, about 6d., exclusive of the wine. Sufficient for three pints of lemonade. Lemonade Milk (another way). — See Milk Lemonade. Lemonade, Mock. — Put half a dozen drops of essence of lemon upon six ounces of loaf sugar, and add a quarter of an ounce of tartaric acid. Pour a quart of boiling water upon them, and mix thoroughl)''. Tune, about three minutes to prepare. Probable cost, 2d. Sufficient for a quart of lemonade. Lemonade, Nourishing. — Pub the yellow rind of two fresh lemons upon three or four lumps of sugar. Put them into a jug, add five ounces of loaf sugar, and pour over them a pint of boihng water. When cool, strain the liquid, and stii- into it a quarter of a pint of lemon-juice, a quarter of a pint of sherry, and four well-beaten eggs

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