1872 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks (Mixellany)

Lemonades. 121 Milk Lemonade, No. ].—Take 6 lemons and 1 Seville orange ; slice them, and powder over them lib. of loaf-sugar; pour on a pint of boiling water and a pint of white wine; let stand for six hours covered ; strain ; pour in pint of boiling milk; strain till clear. Milk Lemonade, No. 2.—Sugar, Jib.; water, 1 pint; dissolve together juice of 3 lemons; milk, 1 pint ; strain through a hair sieve. Milk Lemonade, No. 3.—To lib. of loaf-sugar add 1 pint of water, 1 gill of lemon-juice, J pint of sherry ; add 1 quart new milk ; stir and strain. Orgeat Lemonade, an American Drink. —Half wineglass orgeat syrup, juice of half a lemon (strained) ; fill the tumbler one-third full of shaven ice ; add ingredients ; balance to top with ice; rub the rim of glass with lemon-peel. Ginger Lemonade. —Boil 12Jibs, of sugar in 10 gallons of water for 20 minutes; clear with whites of eggs; bruise 10 oz. of ginger; boil with the liquor ; add the juice of 10 lemons, and the thin peel of same ; when cold, put into a cask with 2 tablespoonfuls of yeast and J oz. of isinglass. Next day, bung up; ready in a fort- night. Lemonade. —Pare 6 lemons, 2 Seville and 1