Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1914 — DRINKS FOR HOT WEATHER [ARTICLE]

DRINKS FOR HOT WEATHER

Beverages Easily Prepared That Are Both Cooling and Refreshing. Iced Chocolate.—Use the following sirup: Pour one-half pint of boiling water over three tablespoonfuls of cocoa, stirring until dissolved. Add one pint of granulated sugar and boil for three minutes. Then cool, add one tablespoonful of vanilla, and bottle. Pour two tablespoonfuls of this sirup into a tumbler with some cracked ice, stir in three tablespoonfuls of whipped cream, a dash of milk and drop in a spoonful of vanilla ice cream. Coffee a la Marlon Crawford. —Make a strong Infusion of good coffee. Do* hot allow it to stand on the grounds or it will be bitter. Add sugar and chill. Put one tablespoonful of chocolate sirup in tumbler, stir in the coffee and fold in a spoonful of whipped cream. Midsummer Dream. Crush ripe peaches and very soft pears to a pulp. To two cupfuls of this add One-half cupful of pineapple juice and the same of plum juice. Sweeten and add ice water. Lay a bunch of plums with their foliage on the plate. Piazza Party Punch.—-The juice of one six lemons, three oranges, six large crushed peaches, one pint of preserved strawberries, the same of preserved denies, one bottle of grape juice- Sweeteh and add one cupful of chopped ice, one gallon of water and a cupful of crushed mint leaves. —Mothers’ Magazine. J