3. Citric acid, 1 to 11⁄2 dr.; essence of lemon, 10 drops; sugar, 2 oz.; cold water, 1 pint; agitate together until dissolved.
Obs. Lemonade is a pleasant, cooling summer beverage, and when made as above may be drank in large quantities with perfect safety. It also forms an excellent refrigerant and antiseptic drink in fevers and putrid diseases generally. Tartaric acid is commonly substituted for citric acid, from being cheaper; it is, however, much, inferior, being less wholesome and less agreeable. Lemonade for icing is prepared as above, only using a little more sugar. Orange sherbet, or orangeade for icing is made in a similar way from oranges.
Lemonade, Aera′ted. Syn. Limonadum aeratum, L.; Limonade gazeuse, Fr. Prep. 1. (P. Cod.) Water, charged with 5 times its volume of carbonic acid gas, 1 pint; syrup of lemon, 2 oz.; mix.
2. (Without a bottling machine.)—a. Into each bottle put lemon syrup, 1 to 11⁄2 oz.; essence of lemon, 3 drops; sesquicarbonate of soda, 1⁄2 dr.; water, q. s. to nearly fill the bottle; have the cork fitted and ready at hand, then add of tartaric acid (cryst.), 1 dr.; instantly close the bottle, and wire down the cork; it should be kept inverted in a cool place, and, preferably, immersed in a vessel of ice-cold water.
b. As the last, but substituting lump sugar, 3⁄4 oz., for the lemon syrup.
c. From lump sugar, 1 oz.; essence of lemon, 3 drops; bicarbonate of potassa, 25 gr.; water q. s., as No. 1; then add citric acid (cryst.), 45 gr., and cork, &c., as before. The last is most wholesome, especially for the scorbutic, dyspeptic, gouty, and rheumatic.
Obs. The best aerated lemonade of the London makers is prepared by putting 11⁄2 fl. oz. of rich lemon syrup into each bottle, which is then filled up with aerated water at the bottling machine.
Lemonade, Antimo′′niated. Syn. Limonadum antimoniatum, L. Prep. By adding tartar emetic, 1 gr., to each pint of ordinary lemonade.—Dose. A wineglassful every 1⁄2 hour or hour; as a diaphoretic and expectorant. See Antimony (Potassio-tartrate).
Lemonade, Ape′′rient. Syn. Limonadum laxativum, L. Prep. 1. Sugar, 1 oz.; lemon juice, 3⁄4 fl. oz.; sulphate of soda, 3 dr.; water, 8 fl. oz.; put them into a soda-water
bottle without shaking, have the cork ready fitted, add of sesquicarbonate of soda (in cryst.), 1⁄2 dr., and instantly cork the bottle, wire it down, and keep it in a cool place, inverted. For a dose.