91. Fresh Fruit Water

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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Ingredients (5)
Red or white currant waters
Instructions (5)
  1. Pick a bottle of fresh raspberries or strawberries, whichever you may require, rub them through a sieve into a basin.
  2. Mix well with half a pint of syrup, the juice of a lemon, and a quart of spring water.
  3. Pass it through a fine hair sieve, and put it by in a jug for use.
  4. Both the syrup and water may either be increased or diminished according to taste.
  5. Red or white currant waters are made precisely the same, only omitting the lemon, the currants themselves being sufficiently sharp.
Original Text
91. Fresh Fruit Water.—Fresh fruits, when in season, are very preferable to syrups, which are but seldom well made, except at some of the first confectioners or Italian warehouses. Pick a bottle of fresh raspberries or strawberries, whichever you may require, rub them through a sieve into a basin, which mix well with half a pint of syrup, the juice of a lemon, and a quart of spring water; pass it through a fine hair sieve, and put it by in a jug for use; both the syrup and water may either be increased or diminished according to taste. Red or white currant waters are made precisely the same, only omitting the lemon, the currants themselves being sufficiently sharp.
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