Name: Lemonade, &C
Ingredients: 209 yellow rinds; 1 gallon water; 3 pounds loaf sugar; 3 pints water; juice of the fruit

Lemonade, &C

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Grate the yellow rinds and add to 1 gallon of water.
Boil 3 pounds of loaf sugar with 3 pints of water to make a syrup.

Combine and bottle

Add the juice of the fruit to the syrup and stir until almost cold.
Mix the syrup with the water and strain through muslin.
Bottle the lemonade for use.

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

Yellow rinds: Their aromatic oils flavour the water, giving the lemonade its citrus aroma.
Loaf sugar: Provides sweetness and balances the sharpness of the citrus juice.
Juice of the fruit: Adds acidity and bright citrus flavour to the drink.

“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.