Food

1860

Persian Sherbet

Take pulverized sugar, 1 lb., super carbonate of soda, 4 oz., tartaric acid, 3 oz.; put all the articles into the stove oven when moderately warm, being separate, upon paper or plates, let them remain sufficiently long to dry out all dampness absorbed from the air, then rub about 40 drops of lemon oil, (or if preferred any other flavored oil,) thoroughly with the sugar in a mortar, wedge-wood is the best, then add the soda and acid, and continue the rubbing until all are thoroughly mixed. Bottle and cork tight for if any degree of moisture is permitted to reach it, the acid and soda neutralize each other and the virtue is thus destroyed. A middling sized table-spoonful or two tea-spoonfuls of this put into a 1-2 pint glass and nearly filled with water and quickly drank makes an agreeable summer beverage; and if 3 or 4 glasses of it are taken within a short time, say an hour or two, it has the effect of a gentle cathartic, hence for those habitually costive it would be found nearly or quite equal to the seidlitz powder, and for children it would be the pleasantest of the two. [The printers have tried it, and can bear testimony to its good qualities.]