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Summer Drinks
Unflavoured
Syrup
To every pint of wa t er add a pound of sug.ir,
and boil till thick; then cool and bottl e.
Syrup
of
<I
ea
Make a pot of very st rong tea, and leave it to
infuse for half an hour.
Add a pound of sugar to each pint of tea, boil it
till thick, and when cool, bottle.
Syrup
of Vanilla
Boil a pound of sugar with a pint of water and
half a vanilla pod, till thick, and bottle with ou t
removing the vanilla pod.
An excellent drink is made of a mixture of
peppermint, lemon and gmger cordials, half
peppermint to a quarter of each of the others
mixed, and water added.
The following are genuine Turkish recipes for
Fruit Sherbets .
The word corresponds t o our Syrups and the
American shrubs from which tha t word is evi–
dently derived.
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