Thursday, October 23, 2025

INDIAN LEMONADE

 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.