1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Temperance Drinks " sweetened water " with which Plupy Shute regaled his friends up in Exeter in the days when the " Real Boy " penned that famous diary. Water is the basis, ginger the flavor, and molasses the sweetener. They are mixed to taste in a great stone jug, which is corked and set In a convenient brook to keep cool. LEMON- '' Pooh! " I hear you say in disgust. " As ADE if any man couldn't make lemonade without being told." But as this book may fall into the hands of a Hottentot or Malay or some other hot-house variety of bachelor, I will set down the proportion of the juice of a lemon to tw^o tablespoonfuls of sugar and one-half pint of water as being a desirable one. This may be varied by using the juice of orange, lime, or grape-fruit, in which case, of course, it will be the other sort of Ade (not Hoosier). An abuse of ice at once destroys the effect desired, besides being dangerous. A liquid set on ice and slowly chilled is far more to be recommended than the drink in w^hich ice floats, but it is not everyone who will admit this truth. Than plain lemonade, made from the juice of the lemon, sweetened sparsely with sugar and diluted with water, and finally cooled on ice, there is no drink more acceptable and cooling in the heat of the day. It ranks before the long list of acidulated drinks and gaseous mineral waters, but it, too, falls into disrepute when too liberally imbibed. It is said afternoon. It's nothing less than the

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