1891 Drinks à La Mode by Mrs de Salis

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INVALID DRINKS,

Acidulated Alkali. Grate the rind of a couple of lemons upon four ounces of castor sugar, pound and mix it with two ounces of tartaric acid and the same quantum of bicarbonate of soda ; bottle and cork it closely, and when required stir a teaspoonful quickly into half a tumblerful of water and drink during efferves- cence. Arrow-Root Gruel. Take a dessertspoonful of arrow-root and mix it with sufficient cold water to form a thin paste ; then put it into boiling water or boiling milk and add salt, sugar, and lemon juice. Barley Water. Put one large tablespoonful of pearl barley into two quarts of cold water in a saucepan and bring to the boil ; squeeze the juice of two good lemons into a jug with white sugar to taste, pour upon this through a strainer the boiling barley water and let it stand till cold.