1927 Drinks of All Kinds

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SUMMER DRINKS

English Rum Shrub. Pour three gallons of best Jamaica rum on a quart of orange-juice, a pint of lemon-juice, and the peels of the latter fruit cut very thin, with six pounds of icing sugar. Cover over tightly for one night; then boil three pints of fresh milk, and when cold pour it into the spirit and juice. Mix the whole well together, let it stand for one hour, filter through a flannel bag lined with blotting-paper into bottles, and cork directly. Raspberry Shrub. Let three quarts of ripe raspberries stand in one quart of vinegar for a day, then strain it, adding one pound of sugar to every pint; then boil for half an hour, skimming it clear, and add a wineglass of brandy to each pint of shrub when cool. Two spoonfuls of this shrub mixed in a tumbler of water is an excellent drink in hot weather, or for fever patients. Rum Shrub. Mix in a cask one gallon of rum, one pound of loaf sugar, and three pints of orange-juice. Leave for six weeks, when it will be ready for use.