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To Drink Clarified Lemonade

clarified lemonade
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(from The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-table Directory, by Charlotte Campbell Bury, 1844)

Ingredients:

6 lemons​
1/2 lb. sugar​
1/2 pint white wine​
1 quart boiling water​
1/2 pint boiling milk​

Instructions:
Pare the rind of three lemons as thin as you can; put them into a jug, with the juice of six lemons, the sugar, white wine, and boiling water. Let it stand all night. In the morning, add the boiling milk: then run it through a jelly-bag till quite clear.​

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Clarified Lemonade


From "The Lady's Own Cookery Book", 1844


Ingredients 6 lemons 1/2 pound of sugar 1/2 pint of rich white wine 1 quart of boiling water 1/2 pint of boiling milk Instructions Pare the rind of three lemons as thin as you can; put them into a jug, with the juice of six lemons, the sugar, white wine, and boiling water. Let it stand all night. In the morning, add the boiling milk: then run it through a jelly-bag till quite clear.
I'm not sure this sounds good. Milk and lemonade- hmmmm.
 
Milk and lemonade and wine?! :eek: Those Victorians and their weird food and drink.

I could see the lemons and wine maybe, as I've enjoyed the Italian treat of Limoncello - it's an lemon liquor that is very refreshing and typically homemade by many who hail from the Naples region.

Lemon cello is refreshing.
 
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Clarified Lemonade


From "The Lady's Own Cookery Book", 1844


Ingredients 6 lemons 1/2 pound of sugar 1/2 pint of rich white wine 1 quart of boiling water 1/2 pint of boiling milk Instructions Pare the rind of three lemons as thin as you can; put them into a jug, with the juice of six lemons, the sugar, white wine, and boiling water. Let it stand all night. In the morning, add the boiling milk: then run it through a jelly-bag till quite clear.
Hey Albert. Have you tried this?
 
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