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Summer Drinks
Leave it in a dark place for six h ours, and then
pour over it a pint of boiling wat er, and lea ve it
again in the dark for twenty-four h ours.
Dissolve a quarter of a pound of suga r in a
pint of water, and put it on one side. StrJin the
flowers without pressure, and mix th e flm\·er syrup
with the other boiling syrup.
Filter it, and when cool bottle it.
Syrup of Almonds
Boil slowly six ounces of ground S\veet almond·
and two ounces of ground bitt er almond s in
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quart of water for an hour.
Then add one pound of loaf sugar, and \Yhen
dissolved strain; when cold, add a tablespoonful
of orange flower water. Bottle.
A wineglassful in a tumbler of soda
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makes what is known as almond water.
Syrup of Aprico ts
Stone six pounds of apri cots, and add to them
the kernels. Boil them in three pint s of ·wat er
and strain them.
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the juice add half the quan t ity of sugar, and
boil it till thick or until it p ea rls.
Cool, and bottle.
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