INDIAN LEMONADE
This is the traditional beverage served in the American pharmacies and fountain drink parlors in 1908. The original recipe.
24 medium size lemons
2 glasses of grape jelly- Wellch's works fine
4 cups of white granulated sugar
3/4 quarts of sweet fresh rich milk
Wash well two dozen of medium size ripe lemons, dry them nicely with a paper towel, pare thinly and squeeze the juice of those lemons over the shaved rinds. Let the juice stand for twelve hours in the fridge and then add into it two glasses of the grape jelly, mix well, until the jelly is dissolved fully. Then dissolve four cups of white granulated sugar in the in three quarts of the sweet fresh scalded milk fully. Stir this well and add it to the fruit juice.When your drink is cooled down to the cold, strain it through through the double cheese cloth without squeezing and serve with the shaved ice.