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Lemonade

A sweetened lemon‑flavored syrup made with saccharin, citric acid, and lemon peel tincture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Lemonade

Lemonade

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Dissolve 20 saccharin tablets in 1 pint boiling water.

  2. Add 1 ounce citric acid and 2 teaspoons tincture of lemon peel.

  3. Let the mixture cool, then bottle it.

Serve

  1. Add 1–2 tablespoons of the syrup to a tumbler of soda water to flavor.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Saccharin
Provides the sweetness without adding sugar bulk to the syrup.
Citric acid
Adds the sharp, sour bite that makes the drink taste like lemonade.
Tincture of lemon peel
Supplies the concentrated lemon aroma and flavor.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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