1919 Home made beverages

— N on- Alcoholic

Beverages

4 hours, strain and press the juice out by squeezing the strainer between the hands. Add to the juice the same quantity of citric acid; dissolve in each gallon 14 lb. of loaf sugar; simply warm the juice sufficiently to dissolve the sugar; take from the fire, and when cold bottle and cork till required. 3. — Take of fresh ripe strawberries, 10 qt.; white sugar, 24 lb.; water, }£ gal. Spread a portion of the sugar over the fruit, in layers, let it stand 4 or 5 hours, express the juice, strain, washing out the marc with water; add remainder of sugar and water, raise to the boiling point and strain. 4. — Use strawberries of a good flavor. Do not forget that if the berries possess no flavor, you cannot expect to obtain a syrup of fine flavor. Avoid also rotten berries, because, unless you do, you may be sure to find as flavor the smell of the rotten berries in your syrup. Mash the fruit in a barrel or other suitable vessel, by means of a pounder, and leave the pulp for 12 or 24 hours at a tem- perature between 70 and 80°; stir occasionally, press, set the juice aside for one night, add for every pound avoirdu- pois of juice 1 oz. avoirdupois of cologne spirit or deodo- rized alcohol; mix, set aside for another night and filter through paper. For 1 lb. of the filtered juice take 1J£ lb. of sugar and heat to the boiling point, taking care to remove from the fire or turn off the steam as soon as the mixture begins to boil; remove the scum and bottle in perfectly clean bottles, rinsed with a little cologne spirit. This syrup, as well as those made by the same process, is strong enough to be mixed with two or three times its weight of simple syrup for the soda fountain. 5. — Strawberry juice, 8 oz.; cochineal coloring, 2 dr.; gum foam, 1 dr.; simple syrup, enough to make 32 oz. A good strawberry flavor is one of the hardest to get, and one of the most unsatisfactory. Still it is not advisable to be without even a poor article. 6. — Remove the hulls from a quart of strawberries and 52