FOR WARMER WEATHER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 259, 30 September 1936, Page 13

FOR WARMER WEATHER.

SOME DELICIOUS DRINKS. Lemon Squash. —Take lib sugar, 1 pint cold water, 5 drops essence lemon, 2oz. citric acid crystals. Place in a pan the sugar and water, and bring to the boil. Boil quickly for four minutes. Remove from the gas and adu the citric acid crystals and lemon essence. Stir till crystals have dissolved. Bottle when cool, and serve as required, with water or sodawater.

Orange Squash.—Take 3 oranges, 1 lemon, 3 tablespoonfuls sugar, 1 pint cold water. Cut the oranges in half and prepare two or three thin slices for garnishing. Squeeze the juice from the oranges and lemon, put into a jug and add the sugar. Allow it to stand for thirty minutes to dissolve the sugar. Add the cold water, garnish with slices of orange, and serve very cold. Amber Eruitade.- —Take lib. loaf sugar, 2 large lemons, 2J- gills water, 1 grapefruit, 1 orange. Measure sugar into a saucepan. Add the water. Stir occasionally, till sugar is dissolved. Bring to the boil. Boil for five minutes. Halve the fruit, carefully remove pulp and juice, and add to the syrup. Bring again to boiling point and allow to simmer round the edge. Swim carefully. When cold, strain through a hair sieve or muslin. Add soda-water to taste.

Ben Fritski.—Take 1 cupful sugar, 1 pint cold water, lib. tin grated pineapple, 1 orange. 3 lemons, 2 bottles ginger ale. Boil sugar and water together for ten minutes. Add pineapple and the juice of orange and lemons. Strain, cool, and add chipped ice. Pour in ginger ale and serve.

Fruit Nectar.—Take 1 quart water, 2 cupfuls grapefruit, juice 4 oranges, 2 cupfuls sugar, juice 4 lemons, 1 egg-white. Mix together the water and sugar. Heat to boiling point, then boil slowly for ten minutes. Cool, add grapefruit (cut into small pieces), lemon and orange juice. Freeze to a mash. Add stiffly-whipped egg-white, then chill for three hours, and use.