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To Drink Lemon Water (and Orange Water)

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

fresh lemon​
1 glass of water​
loaf sugar​
Instructions:

Cut up a fine fresh lemon, and steep it for a short time in a glass of water; then drain off the water, and sweeten it lightly with loaf sugar. It is very cooling and refreshing to sick people.​
Orange Water may be made in the same manner, and is also good.​


Flavored waters were popular in 19th century. Mrs. Lettice Bryan has several in her book.
 
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Flavored waters were popular in 19th century. Mrs. Lettice Bryan has several in her book, "The Kentucky Housewife", 1839.

Lemon Water

Cut up a fine fresh lemon, and steep it for a short time in a glass of water; then drain off the water, and sweeten it lightly with loaf sugar. It is very cooling and refreshing to sick people.

She also writes that Orange Water may be made in the same manner, and is also good.
This today's version. Believe it or not, I kinda like it.
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Flavored waters were popular in 19th century. Mrs. Lettice Bryan has several in her book, "The Kentucky Housewife", 1839.

Lemon Water

Cut up a fine fresh lemon, and steep it for a short time in a glass of water; then drain off the water, and sweeten it lightly with loaf sugar. It is very cooling and refreshing to sick people.

She also writes that Orange Water may be made in the same manner, and is also good.
Thanks for posting.
I believe I'll have the Scotch Water, hold the water....
 
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Flavored waters were popular in 19th century. Mrs. Lettice Bryan has several in her book, "The Kentucky Housewife", 1839.

Lemon Water

Cut up a fine fresh lemon, and steep it for a short time in a glass of water; then drain off the water, and sweeten it lightly with loaf sugar. It is very cooling and refreshing to sick people.

She also writes that Orange Water may be made in the same manner, and is also good.
Is this the same method for making lemonade, Donna, or is it different?
 
My mother made lemon water in the summer, those days she would tend her garden in the sweltering Alabama sun. She likely did not know that the water, vital electrolytes and nutrients, which were found in the brew, saved her from heat stroke.
 
My mother made lemon water in the summer, those days she would tend her garden in the sweltering Alabama sun. She likely did not know that the water, vital electrolytes and nutrients, which were found in the brew, saved her from heat stroke.

That is great to know. I'm going to start carrying it with me when I run.
 
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