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MIXED DRINKS.
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(FOR THE SICK.)
Mash one pound of dried sour cherries, pits and all, and boil
it in one quart of water with the rind of half a lemon and a small
stick of cinnamon slowly half an hour; strain through flannel,
sweeten with sugar to taste and keep it in a bottle for use.
From three pounds of sour cherries a number of the largest
and finest are selected; the juice of the rest is pressed through a
cloth into a pot and heated to boiling with one pound of sugar;
the selected large cherries are boiled soft in one to one and a half
quarts of water; take them from the fire, lift them out carefully,
put them in a bowl with one quart of the water in which they
were boiled and with their juice, add a few drops of rose or
orange-flower essence and a few lumps of ice, and serve.
70. <!J:itronelle.
Use a large glass with some fine ice,
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glass of green tea,
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glass of black tea,
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glass of lemon syrup.
Shake well, and serve.
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Half a quart of fresh currant-juice is mixed with one quart of
cold water and one pound of sugar and strained through a flan–
nel; or you take currant syrup; mix one pound of it with the
juice of a lemon and one and one-fourth quarts of cold water.