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Imitation Orange Juice

Dissolve 1 ounce citric acid and 1 drachm carbonate of potassa in 1 quart water, and digest in the solution the peel of half an orange until sufficiently flavored; then sweeten with honey or white sugar. Instead of the orange peel, 5 or 6 drops of oil of orange peel, with fluid ounce tincture of orange peel, may be used. 906. Aerated or Effervescing Lemonade. This may be made by putting into each bottle (soda water bottle) 1 ounce or 14 914. To Keep Lemon Juice. Buy lemons when cheap and keep them in a cool place two or three days; roll them to make them squeeze easily. Squeeze the juice in a ounces syrup of lemons, and filling it up with simple aerated water from the machine. (The syrup is made by dissolving 30 ounces lump sugar in 16 ounces of fresh lemon juice, bowl, and strain it through muslin which will by a gentle heat. It may be aromatized by not permit a particle of the pulp to pass adding 30 or 40 drops of essence of lemon to through. Have ready and 4 ounce phials, the sugar; or by rubbing part of the sugar perfectly dry. Fill them with the juice so on the peel of 2 lemons; or by adding to the syrup an ounce of a strong tincture of fresh lemon peel, or of the distilled spirit of the same.) 907. Effervescing Lemonade, without a Machine. Put into each bottle 2 drachms of sugar, 2 drops of essence of lemon, drachm bicarbonate of potash, and water to fill the bottle; then drop in 35 or 40 grains of citric or tartaric acidin crystals, and cork immediately, placing the bottles in a cool place, or preferably, in iced water. near the top as only to admit + tea-spoonful of sweet oil in each, or a little more if for larger bottles. Cork them tight, and put them in a cool dark place. When you want the juice, open such a sized bottle as you will use in a few days. Wind some clean cotton on a skewer, and dip it in, to absorb all the oil.

When the oil is removed the juice will be as fine as when first bottled.