This refreshing strawberry syrup beverage was designed as part of an Independence Day menu, paired with shaved ice and presented alongside festive holiday sweets. The syrup is prepared by boiling a simple sugar syrup, simmering it with fresh strawberry juice, and diluting it with cold water to taste before serving chilled.
Original
Mash and strain enough strawberries to make a cup of juice. Put a cup of water and one of granulated sugar over the fire, and stir until dis-solved, then boil ten minutes without stirring; add the strawberry juice, simmer fifteen minutes. Dilute with sufficient cold water to form a pleas-ant drink. Serve with shaved ice. Small china dishes which represented flags held the salted almonds.
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Public rights statementThis material was originally published in the United States in 1900 and is believed to be in the public domain in the United States. Source: Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1, 1900-07-01, page n22, via https://archive.org/details/sim_good-housekeeping_good-housekeeping_1900-07_31_1. Repastory is not affiliated with or endorsed by Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1 or its current owner. Rights may vary outside the United States.
Recipe
Ingredients
strawberries, mashed and strained to yield 1 cup juice
1 cup water
1 cup granulated sugar
cold water, for diluting
ice, shaved
Directions
Mash and strain enough strawberries to make one cup of juice.
Place one cup of water and one cup of granulated sugar over the fire and stir until dissolved. Boil for ten minutes without stirring.
Add the prepared strawberry juice and simmer for fifteen minutes.
Dilute the syrup with enough cold water to produce a pleasant drink, and serve over shaved ice.
Item type
recipe
Yield
Not stated
Timing
25 minutes cooking time
Temperature
Not stated
Equipment
strainer
Names & connections
Beveragestopic · categorized as
Fourth of Julytopic · associated holiday
Source context
menu schedule
Fourth of July Dinner Menu
MENU
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“Give us a taste of your quality.”
Hamlet.
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Clarendon.
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Massinger.
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“The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find,
Lies through their mouths, or I mistake mankind.”
Peter Pindar.
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“Appetite comes with eating.”
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“Now I am in a holiday humor.”
Shakespeare.
Strawberry Sirup
“Drink, pretty creature, drink.”
Wordsworth.
Bonbons
“War is honorable
In those who do their native rights maintain,
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak.”