[Sca-cooks] Lemonade was Easy cordial recipe request

[johnna holloway]

I thought you might appreciate this early recipe
for lemonade taken from The French Cook.
It may in fact be the earliest printed recipe for
Lemonade in English. The recipe is in fact older than
what OED gives for their earliest quote which dates
from only 1662.

How to Make Lemonade.
It is made several waies, according to the diversity of the
ingredients. For to make it with Jasmin, you must take of it about
two handful, infuse it in two or three quarts of water the space
of eight or ten houres; then to one quart of water you shall put
six ounces of sugar. Those of ornage flowers, of muscade roses,
and og gelliflowers, are made after the same way. For to make
that of Lemon, take some lemons, cut them, and take out the juice,
put it in water as abovesaid. Pare another lemon, cut it into slices,
put it among this juice, and some sugar proportionably.
That of orange is made the same way.
Francois Pierre La Varenne. The French Cook. 1653. pp. 238-239.

Johnnae llyn Lewis


Susan Laing wrote:

> Hi Ho! snipped I've tried trolling through the Florri files but can't find a
> simple Lemon
> cordial listed (lemon & cinnamon or Lemon & ? - either would be fine)
> Mari