Name: Lemonade Powders
Ingredients: 1 part citric acid; 6 parts finely powdered white sugar

Lemonade Powders

Ingredients

1 part citric acid
6 parts finely powdered white sugar

Directions

Make the mix

Mix citric acid and sugar in the specified proportions.
Store the mixture in a bottle for future use.

Serve

Add to a glass of water to taste for a pleasant 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.

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What each ingredient does

Citric acid: Provides the sour, tart flavour that makes the drink taste like lemonade.
White sugar: Balances the sourness of the citric acid and adds sweetness.

“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.