Apple Water.—­Pour a cupful of boiling water over two mashed baked apples; cool, strain, and sweeten.  Serve with shaved ice if desired.

Currant Juice.—­Take an ounce of currant juice or a tablespoonful of currant jelly.  Over this pour a cupful of boiling water (use cold water with the juice) and sweeten to taste.

Lemonade.—­Take the juice of one lemon or three tablespoonfuls of lemon juice; add from one to three tablespoonfuls of sugar and a cupful (six ounces) of cold water.  Serve with cracked or shaved ice if desired.

[650 Mothers’ remedies]

Syrup for Cough of Long Standing.—­“Five cents worth of flax seed, a little rock candy, two tablespoons of best brandy and a lemon makes the finest cough syrup in the world.  Steep flaxseed a short time, strain and add rock candy to sweeten, then juice of one lemon and the brandy.  One physician says it is as good as anything he can put up.”

Syrup of Lemons for Fever Cases and to Disguise the Taste of Bad Medicines.—­“Boil for ten minutes a pint of lemon juice, strain, add two pounds of brown sugar and dissolve.  When cold add two and one-half ounces of alcohol.  A fine addition to drinks in fever cases and good to disguise the taste of medicines.”

Lemonade.—­Pare the rind from one lemon, cut the lemon into slices, and place both in a pitcher with an ounce of sugar.  Over this pour a pint of boiling water and let it stand until cold.  Strain and serve with cracked ice.

Albuminzed Lemonade.—­Shake together a cupful of water, two teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, and the white of an egg.  Serve at once.

Orangeade.—­Cut the rind from one orange; over the rind pour a cupful of boiling water; then add the juice of the orange and a tablespoonful of sugar; cool, strain, and serve with shaved ice if desired.  If this is too sweet, a tablespoonful of lemon juice may be added.

Imperial Drink.—­Add a teaspoonful of cream of tartar to a pint of boiling water; into this squeeze the juice of half a lemon, or more if desired; sweeten to taste and serve cold.  This drink is most useful in fevers and nephritis.

Flaxseed Tea.—­Add six teaspoonfuls of flaxseed to a quart of water; boil for half an hour; cool, strain, sweeten, and if desired flavor with a little lemon juice.

Mulled Wine.—­One-fourth of a cupful of hot water, one-half inch of stick cinnamon, two cloves, a tiny bit of nutmeg, one-half cupful of port (heated) two tablespoonfuls of sugar.  Boil all the ingredients except the wine and sugar for ten minutes; then add the wine and sugar, strain, and serve very hot.

Grape Juice.—­Pluck Concord grapes from the stem.  Wash and heat them, stirring constantly.  When the skins have been broken, pour the fruit into a jelly bag and press slightly.  Measure the juice and add one-quarter the quantity of sugar.  Boil the juice and sugar together and then pour into hot bottles; cork and seal with paraffin or equal parts of shoemaker’s wax and resin melted together.  Less sugar may be used.