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Required : One quart of boiling water.
Half a pound each of raspberries, strawberries, and red currants. The juice of two lemons. One breakfastcupful of icing sugar.
Stalk and pick over the fruit, then mash it to a pulp with a fork. Rub the icing sugar through a hair sieve; then add it and the lemon-juice to the fruit. Next pour over the boiling water. Cover the jug, and let it stand for twelve hours. Then strain out the fruit; keep the jug on ice until the drink is required.
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N.B. - If more convenient, a larger variety of fruit may be used. This is a good way of using up various fruits left over and which will not keep well until next day.
 
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