Rum Shrub

Ingredients

• Rum, a pint
• orange juice, a wineglassful
• lemon juice, a wineglassful
• sugar, 1 oz.
• orange and lemon peel, oz.
• dissolve in 1 pint of water

Method

1. 1

   Combine all ingredients and dissolve the sugar in the water.

2. 2

   A little tartaric acid may be added for acidity.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 430. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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