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Lemon Syrup

Ingredients

• 6 pounds of fine loaf-sugar
• 12 large ripe lemons
• 2 quarts of water

Instructions

Break up loaf-sugar into large pieces. Take lemons, and (without cutting them) grate the yellow rind upon the sugar. Then, put the sugar, with the lemon gratings and the water, into a preserving kettle, and let it dissolve. When it is all melted, boil it till quite thick, skimming it till no more scum rises; it will then be done. Have ready the juice of all the lemons, and when the syrup is quite cold, stir in the lemon juice. Bottle it, and keep it in a cool place.

It makes a delicious drink in summer, in the proportion of one third lemon syrup and two thirds ice water.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).