Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1875 — How to Make Lemonade. [ARTICLE]

How to Make Lemonade.

One of the most refreshing drinks in very liot weather is lemonade, but how rare is it that we meet with lemonade that is really nice! Of course tastes differ, hut 1 cannot understand how some people can drink' the ordinary. hottlecTlemonade. It is, as a rule, so very sweet that it is absolutely sickly, and, at the same time, in such a state of effervesence that only peculiarly-constituted throats can drink it at a draught. Plain, home-made* lemonade can be made very cheaply, when lemons are not too dear" Tlie great secret is to use boiling water, and pour it on tlie pulp of, say,' three lemons, with a small piece of peel, but not too much, as it will render the lemonade bitter. Add white sugar to taste —of course children like it sweeter than others. Let it get cold, and then strain it. Care should be taken that all pips are removed from the pulp before the boiling water is added. A great improvement to this kiud of lemonade is the addition of a little dilute sulphuric acid, about thirty drops to a quart. Thirty drops of dilute acid, when freely diluted, can be taken at one dose without any fear, though, of course, such a quantity must not be taken without a doctors order, but the addition of it to a whole quart of lemonade has the effect of rendering it much more palatable; and were a person to drink the whole quart, which is improbable, it would notdothem the slightest harm. Dilute sulphuric acid is a simple but valuable medicine, particularly useful in summer. —Rural New Yorker. .