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Effervescing Draughts

A simple lemon soda made by mixing lemon juice, soda bicarbonate, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Effervescing Draughts

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a glass, combine the fresh lemon juice and carbonate of soda.

  2. Add the water and stir gently.

  3. Watch for effervescence as the mixture bubbles.

  4. Serve immediately for a refreshing drink.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Carbonate of soda
Reacts with the lemon juice's acid to release carbon dioxide, creating the bubbles and fizz.
Fresh lemon juice
Supplies the acid that reacts with the carbonate of soda, and adds tart flavour.

The step that matters

Serve immediately. The fizz comes from carbon dioxide released by the acid-base reaction, and it escapes from the liquid over time, so the drink loses its effervescence if it waits.

“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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