One and three-fourths pounds of sugar; one and one-half ounce whole ginger; two and one-half ounces cream of tartar; one lemon sliced; seven quarts of boiling water and two cents worth of yeast. Put the sugar and spices in a stone jar; pour boiling water over them and let them stand covered in a cool place for twenty-four hours. Then add the yeast, dissolved in luke warm water, and let stand again for twenty-four hours. Put in bottles, cork well and after three days it is ready for use.
GINGERADE Mrs. W. L. Gregson
One quart of cold water, one cup sugar, one-fourth ounce white ginger root, juice two oranges and one lemon. Put the water and sugar to boil, add ginger root broken into small bits. Let it boil twenty minutes after boiling begins, remove from the fire and add fruit juice. Strain and cool. Serve with powdered ice and a preserved or sweet cherry in each glass.
BLACK COW Midlothian Country Club
Put fine ice in glass and nearly fill with sarsaparilla, pour cream carefully on top of that and serve.
A DELICIOUS FRUIT CUP Midlothian Country Club
Put one pint of water, one pound of sugar and the grated yellow rind of one lemon on to boil for five minutes; strain and while hot slice into it two bananas; one grated pineapple and one-fourth pound stoned cherries. When ready to serve add the juice of six lemons. Put in the center of your punch bowl, as guard, a block of ice; pour over it two quarts of apollinaris, add the fruit mixture and at the last moment one dozen strawberries and mix all together.
CHOCOLATE FRAPPE S. Blanche Backman
Put a quart of rich milk in a double boiler, stir into it gradually three-fourths of a cup grated chocolate and sweeten to taste. Boil five minutes, stirring all the while; then pour into an earthen dish and add a teaspoonful of vanilla and set on ice. Have chopped ice in the bottom of the glasses; then fill the glasses within a quarter of an inch of the brim. Put sweetened whipped cream on top. If desired the whipped cream can be dotted in the middle with fruit jelly.
CREAMY COCOA