1896 Fancy Drinks and Popular Beverages by the Only William

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MIXED DRINKS.

(FOR THE SICK.)

Mash one pound of dried sour cherries, pits and all, and boil it in one quart of water with the rind of half a lemon and a small stick of cinnamon slowly half an hour; strain through flannel, sweeten with sugar to taste and keep it in a bottle for use.

From three pounds of sour cherries a number of the largest and finest are selected; the juice of the rest is pressed through a cloth into a pot and heated to boiling with one pound of sugar; the selected large cherries are boiled soft in one to one and a half quarts of water; take them from the fire, lift them out carefully, put them in a bowl with one quart of the water in which they were boiled and with their juice, add a few drops of rose or orange-flower essence and a few lumps of ice, and serve.

70.

Use a large glass with some fine ice, ~ glass of green tea, ~ glass of black tea, ~ glass of lemon syrup. Shake well, and serve.

71.

Half a quart of fresh currant-juice is mixed with one quart of cold water and one pound of sugar and strained through a flan– nel; or you take currant syrup; mix one pound of it with the juice of a lemon and one and one-fourth quarts of cold water.