1872 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks (Mixellany)

122 Lemon Syrups, 8fc. Tangerine oranges very thin; pound them into a mass in a mortar with 21bs. of sugar ; add 2 quarts of boiling water, the juice of 18 lemons, and 8 sweet and 2 Seville oranges; stir the whole well; strain clear ; add orange-flower water to taste ; a little lemon brandy is an improvement. Lemonade. —Juice of 3 lemons, strained, peel ot 1 ; sugar, Jib. ; cold water, 1 quart; mix; digest for five hours ; strain through a sieve. Lemon Syrup. —Citric acid, 1^ drachm ; essence of lemon, 10 drops; sugar, 4 oz. ; cold water, ] pint. Lemon Syrup, No. 2.—Citric acid, 2J oz.; distilled water, 2J oz. ; tincture of lemon-peel, 5^ drachms; syrup, 3 pints ; dissolve the acid and sugar in the water ; add the tincture. Lemon Whey. —Pint of boiling milk, J pint of lemon-juice ; sugar to taste ; mix ; strain through sieve. Lemon Shrub. —Juice of 12 lemons, thin rind of 2 ; lib. of loaf-sugar, whites of 2 eggs well whisked, pint of water, ^ pint of rum,.^ pint of brandy ; strain when required. Lemon Syllabubs. —-To 1 pint of cream, add pint of white wine, thin peel of 3 lemons, juice of 1 lemon, lib. powdered sugar ; whip up well