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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Lemon Wine. — Put the thin rind of five lemons into a tub. Pour over them a syrup made by boiling four quarts of water with four- pounds of sugar for thirty minutes. A\Tien quite cold, add the strained juice of ten lemons. Place a toast covered with j-cast on the top, and let the liquid stand for a day or two, imtil fer- mentation begins, then take out the rind, put the liquor into a cask, and keep it filled up to the top until it has ceased working, when it must be bunged down closely. In tlu-ee months it will be ready for bottling. If pre- ferred, the peel of the lemon can be omitted. This wine should be made at the beginning of the year, when lemons are cheapest and best. Probable cost, 2s. 6d. Sufficient for a gallon and a half of wine. Lemon Wine, Quickly Made.— Boil a quart of water with a pound of loaf sugar until the sugar is dissolved, then add half an ounce of citric acid. AVhen the liquid is cool, stir in with a silver spoon twelve drops of essence of lemon and eight drops of spu'its of wine. Colour with a little saftron. Time, an Iiour to prepare. Probable cost, lOd. Suffi- cient for thi'ee pints of wine. Lemonade. — Boil a quart of water with three-quarters of a pound of loaf sugar, and pour the syrup over the lind of six lemons. Let them soak for two or three hours. Add the strained juice of the lemons and two quarts of waterLemonade. Pass the whole through a jelly-bag, and serve in glass jugs. Probable cost, lOd. Sufficient for seven pints of lemonade. Lemonade, Acidulated (s-e Acidulated Lemonade) . Lemonade, Economical. — Slice four fresh lemons, and be careful to remove the pips and the thick white skin. Put them, with the 25 rind, into a jug, add a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar, and pour upon them a quart of boiling waterLemonade, Economical. Cover closely, and when the lemonade is cold, it is ready for use. Probable cost, 6d. Sufficient for three pints of lemonade. Or, prepare two lemons as above, and put them into a jug with six ounces of moist sugar and an oimce of cream of tartar. Pour two quarts of boiling water upon them, and let the liquid stand until cold. Tinie, two hours to infuse. Probable cost, 5d. Sufficient for five pints of lemonade. Lemonade, Effervescing.— Boil two pounds of loaf sugar in a pint of strained lemon- juice until the sugar is dissolved. Pour the sjTup out, and when it is cold put it into bottles, and cork closely. When wanted for use, put a table-spoonful into a tumbler three- parts full of cold water. Stir in briskly twenty grains of carbonate of soda, and drink during effervescence. Probable cost, 2s. 6d. Sufficient for a little more than a quart of sjTup. Lemonade for Invalids.— Squeeze the juice out of a fine lemon. Strain it, put it with a quarter of the rind and three or four lumps of loaf sugar into a jug, and pour over it 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, Effervescing