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Lemonade, Excellent

A simple lemonade made with boiling water, lemon rinds, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Lemonade, Excellent

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over the thinly pared rinds of the lemons.

  2. Cover and let it stand for a day.

  3. Squeeze the juice of the lemons into the mixture.

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

Lemon rinds
Steeping in boiling water releases aromatic oils from the peel, flavouring the drink.
Lemon juice
Provides the sharp acidity that gives lemonade its characteristic tang.

“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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