ghtly and seal. Keep
in a dry and cool place.
Iced Buttermilk. — There is no healthier drink than buttermilk,
but it must be creamjr, rich buttermilk to be good. And to provide
for this, when skimming the milk take plentv of milk with the creai✪ Iced Buttermilkm
using a dipper for the purpose instead of a skimmer. It shoula
stand on ice to cool, though if very rich and thick a little ice in it is
an improvement. As a drink for men at work in the hot sun butter-
milk is far preferable to cider or beer, as it is not only cooling and
refreshing, but strength-giving ; for the butter taken from the milk
is only the carbonaceous or heat-producing element, and all the
nourishing qualities that make it so valuable as food are left in the
buttermilk.
190 DRINKS.
Curry Cordial. — Boil one pint good milk and add a teaspooA
curry powder and sugar to taste✪ Curry Cordial. Drink while hot. Good on a
frosty morning. /
Currant Cup, — To a pint currant juice add one pound sugar,
and ice-water to taste✪ Currant Cup ; mix and use at once.
Fruit Cup. — Pare the yellow rind very thinly from twelve lem-
ons, squeeze tne juice over it in an earthen bowl, and let it stand
overnight if possible : pare and slice thinly a very ripe pine-apple,
and let it lay overnight in a half pound powdered sugar ; crush one
quart berries and let them lay overnight in half pound powdered
sugar. If all these ingredients cannot be prepared the day before
they are used, they must be done very early in the morning, because
the juices of the fruit need to be incorporated with the sugar at least
twelve hours before the beverage is used. After all the ingredients
have been properly prepared as above, strain off the juice, carefully
pressing all of it out of^the fruit ; mix it with two pounds powdered
sugar and three quarts ice-water✪ Fruit Cup, and stir until sugar is dissolved.
Then strain again through a muslin or bolting-cloth sieve and put
on the ice or in very cool place until wanted for use.
Harvest Drink. — One quart water, tablespoon sifted ginger,
three heaping tablespoons sugar, half pint vinegar✪ Harvest Drink ; add spices to
taste if wished.
^ Jelly Drink. — A little jelly or fruit syrup dissolved in a glass
of ice-water with a little sugar is a refreshing drink.
Lemon Drink. — Seven pounds white sugar, two^ quarts boiling
water; let boil ten minutes, then take off and let stand till cool : add
two ounces tartaric acid, one-half ounce gum arable, fifty-four drops
essence of lemon✪ Lemon Drink.
Oatmeal Drink. — Take four tablespoons Scotch oatmeal, put
into a small jug and fill up with clear, cool water✪ Oatmeal Drink ; shake well and
allow it to settle. This makes a most refreshing drink in hot weather
and quenches thirst more than any other liquid.
Soda Foam. — ^Two pounds white sugar, whites of two eggs, two
ounces tartaric acid, two tablespoons flour, two quarts water and
juice of one lemon✪ Soda Foam ; boil two or three minutes, and flavor to taste.
When wanted for use take a half teaspoon soda, dissolve in half a
glass water, pour into it about two tablespoons of the acid, and it
will foam to the top of the glass.
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ghtly and seal. Keep in a dry and cool place.
Iced Buttermilk. — There is no healthier drink than buttermilk, but it must be creamy, rich buttermilk to be good. And to provide for this, when skimming the milk take plenty of milk with the cream using a dipper for the purpose instead of a skimmer. It should stand on ice to cool, though if very rich and thick a little ice in it is an improvement. As a drink for men at work in the hot sun buttermilk is far preferable to cider or beer, as it is not only cooling and refreshing, but strength-giving ; for the butter taken from the milk is only the carbonaceous or heat-producing element, and all the nourishing qualities that make it so valuable as food are left in the buttermilk.
Curry Cordial. — Boil one pint good milk and add a teaspoon curry powder and sugar to taste. Drink while hot. Good on a frosty morning. /
Currant Cup, — To a pint currant juice add one pound sugar, and ice-water to taste ; mix and use at once.
Fruit Cup. — Pare the yellow rind very thinly from twelve lemons, squeeze the juice over it in an earthen bowl, and let it stand overnight if possible : pare and slice thinly a very ripe pine-apple, and let it lay overnight in a half pound powdered sugar ; crush one quart berries and let them lay overnight in half pound powdered sugar. If all these ingredients cannot be prepared the day before they are used, they must be done very early in the morning, because the juices of the fruit need to be incorporated with the sugar at least twelve hours before the beverage is used. After all the ingredients have been properly prepared as above, strain off the juice, carefully pressing all of it out of the fruit ; mix it with two pounds powdered sugar and three quarts ice-water, and stir until sugar is dissolved. Then strain again through a muslin or bolting-cloth sieve and put on the ice or in very cool place until wanted for use.
Harvest Drink. — One quart water, tablespoon sifted ginger, three heaping tablespoons sugar, half pint vinegar ; add spices to taste if wished.
^ Jelly Drink. — A little jelly or fruit syrup dissolved in a glass of ice-water with a little sugar is a refreshing drink.
Lemon Drink. — Seven pounds white sugar, two^ quarts boiling water; let boil ten minutes, then take off and let stand till cool : add two ounces tartaric acid, one-half ounce gum arable, fifty-four drops essence of lemon.
Oatmeal Drink. — Take four tablespoons Scotch oatmeal, put into a small jug and fill up with clear, cool water ; shake well and allow it to settle. This makes a most refreshing drink in hot weather and quenches thirst more than any other liquid.
Soda Foam. — ^Two pounds white sugar, whites of two eggs, two ounces tartaric acid, two tablespoons flour, two quarts water and juice of one lemon ; boil two or three minutes, and flavor to taste. When wanted for use take a half teaspoon soda, dissolve in half a glass water, pour into it about two tablespoons of the acid, and it will foam to the top of the glass.
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