1859 The Book of one Hundred Beverages - BERNHARD (William) -

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FIG AND APPL& DllINL

Into half a. gallon of water, boiling, put eight figs cut open, and two or three apples cut up ; boil half a.n hour, and strain when cold. TAMARIND DalN.L Pour a pint of boiling water on a spoonful of ta.ma.rinds, adding white ·sugar and lemon– peel if required ; strain and cool for 118e. A most pleasant and refreshing drink in hot weather, or in cases of illness. ' Put a te.eupful of cranberries into a cup of .water, and mash them. . Boil, in the mean– time, two quarts of water with ·one large spoon– ful of oatmeal, and • bit er lemon-peel ; add • the cranberries, and sugar, (but not too much: otherwise the fine sharpnese of the fruit will be destroyed,) according to tute ; boil for hal{. an-hour, and straiu. · . .CRANBERRY DRINX.