Soda-Water

Ingredients

• two pounds of white sugar
• the whites of one and a half egg
• two tea-spoonfuls of flour
• two pints of soft water
• two and one-half ounces of super-carbonate of soda
• two and one-half ounces of tartaric acid

Method

1. 1

   Boil sugar, egg whites, and flour in water for five minutes.

2. 2

   Cool, then stir in super-carbonate of soda and flavor.

3. 3

   Dissolve tartaric acid in water in another bottle.

4. 4

   To mix, pour from both bottles into a glass of ice-water.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 164. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SODA-WATER. Boil two pounds of white sugar and the whites of one and a half egg well beaten with two tea-spoonfuls of flour (add two drachms of pulverized gum arabic, if convenient) in two pints of soft wTater five minutes. Stir well while boil- ing, and set it off to cool. When cool, stir thoroughly into the sirup two and one-half ounces of super-carbonate of soda, and flavor wTith any extract desired. Keep this in a bottle by itself. Then dissolve two and one-half ounces of tartaric Th

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