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To Drink Peach Water

peach water
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)
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Ingredients:

2 to 3 tbsp. peach marmalade, or jelly​
lemon juice​
bitter almonds, or peach kernels​
cold water​

Instructions:

Mix two or three table-spoonfuls of peach marmalade or jelly with a little lemon juice, and a few bitter almonds or peach kernels, which have been pounded to a paste, and then dilute it to the proper strength with cold water.​
 
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