Lemonade

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 45 min Total: 45 min
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (12)
for the lemonade base
for fermentation
for flavoring
Instructions (14)
  1. Boil water, powder sugar, and egg whites for three quarters of an hour.
  2. Skim the mixture well.
  3. Let the mixture cool.
  4. Mix in the yeast and lemon syrup.
  5. Add the juice and peel of fifteen oranges.
  6. Let the mixture ferment for two days and one night.
  7. Turn the mixture.
  8. Bottle the lemonade in three months.
  1. Boil water, sugar, and egg whites for three quarters of an hour, and scum it well.
  2. When cold, mix in yeast and lemon syrup.
  3. Add the juice and peel of fifteen oranges.
  4. Let it work two days and one night.
  5. Turn it.
  6. Bottle it in three months.
Original Text
TAKE fix gallons of water, and fifteen pounds of powder ſugar, the whites of fix eggs well beat, boil them all three quarters of an hour, and ſcum it well; when it is cold for working, take fix ſpoonfuls of good yeſt, and fix ounces of the ſyrup of lemons, mix them well, and add it to the liquor, with the juice and peel of fifteen oranges; let it work two days and one night, then turn it, and in three months bottle it.
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