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For making lemonade to assuage the thirst in feverish states, 
it would be a mistake to pour boiling water upon sliced lemons, 
because then the peel would become also infused, and it would 
act medicinally. Fresh lemon-juice should be squeezed into 
cold water, that of three lemons to a quart of water, which has 
been first boiled, and then allowed to become cold ; a few crushed 
strawberries (if in season) may be added, and the cut-up rind 
of one lemon. “But” says ma brither Peter to Mrs. 
McLeerie, in Wee Macgregor: ‘‘ Lemonade’s mair puff than 
pleasure.” A capital lemonade has been formulated by 
Dr. Leftwich, which is nutritious, and eminently palatable, 
especially for children in feverish disorders, being more supporting 
than beef tea. Two lemons are peeled twice, the inner white 
peel being rejected, and the outer yellow peel, with the sliced 
fruit, placed in a quart jug with, say, two lumps of sugar. Pour 
boiling water on them, and stir occasionally. When cooled to 
the temperature of ordinary tea, insert an egg whisk, and slowly 
add the whites of two newlaid eggs. Continue whisking for 
two or three minutes, and strain, whilst still hot, through muslin ; 
serve when cold. For patients who are not feverish, two eggs 
may be used for each pint of the liquid, and thus it will be made 
more nutritious. Children, who often show an aversion to beef- 
tea, readily take this lemonade. 
The lemon treatment for making the blood alkaline against 
gouty acids in the system, is now gaining well-merited favour, 
unless carried to excess. A leading medical journal has lately . 
advocated taking the juice of from four to fourteen lemons 
daily, which latter would undoubtedly be injurious. It is said 
that working girls often do themselves no little harm by sucking 
lemons to give a white complexion. For making Lemon 
Marmalade, of a delicious sort, slice very finely twelve nice 
lemons, scoop all out, and cover the pulp with three pints of 
clear cold water ; boil the skins well for two hours before adding 
them to the pulp; leave the skins in the water after boiling 
overnight, then weigh the skins and pulp together; strain off 
the water in which the skins have been boiled, and to a pound 
of fruit with water add a pound and a quarter of loaf sugar ; 
strain off all pips, and boil for one and a half hours until perfectly 
clear. Turn into glass jars, and tie down when cold. The 
juice of one lemon squeezed into a tumblerful of very hot water, 
and drunk on getting into bed, will usually throw a patient with 
