Photo: Ernest Porzi
Ingredients
- two pounds of loaf sugar
- one ounce of citric acid
- two tablespoonfuls of the syrup are suffi- cient
- two pints of water
- two ingredients to the syrup
Directions
1
Take two pounds of loaf sugar and two pints of water, one ounce of citric acid, half-drachm of essence of lemon. Boil the sugar and water together for quarter of an hour and put it into a basin, where let it remain till cold. Beat the citric acid to a powder, mix the essence of lemon with it, then add these two ingredients to the syrup ; mix well and bottle for use. Two tablespoonfuls of the syrup are suffi- cient for a tumbler of cold water, and will be found a very refreshing summer drink. ^
By Goff, May Perrin, [from old catalog] ed ·
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