Other chocolate is not recommended, as it contains an injurious alkaloid, which in the Sanitas brand is removed by a special process.
FRUIT NECTAR
For every eight parts of fruit juice used add one part of lemon juice and sweeten to taste. A combination of fruit juices, as grape, cherry, and raspberry, makes a very nice nectar, always using the lemon juice. The nectar should be served ice cold.
STRAWBERRY SHERBET
- Ripe strawberries, crushed, 4 cups.
- Water, 4 cups.
- Lemon, sliced very thin, 1.
- Powdered sugar, 2 cups.
Mix the strawberries, water, and lemon together, and let stand in glass or earthen jar for two hours; strain through coarse cloth and add the powdered sugar. When sugar is dissolved strain and keep on the ice until served.
MINT JULEP
- Sugar, 1 cup.
- Mint sprigs, 6.
- Strawberry juice, ½ cup.
- Juice of 4 lemons.
- Water, 1 pint.
- Boiling water, 1 cup.
- Raspberry juice, ½ cup.
- Ice.
Boil sugar and water twenty minutes; crush mint and pour over it one cup boiling water. Let stand five or ten minutes, strain, and pour into the syrup. To this add strawberry, raspberry, and lemon juices. Serve ice cold.