SIR,--Like Leslie Adrian, we need a good dose of fruit
juice to start the day, but I think I have a better and cheaper drink than any he mentions. For lemon: 3 lemons 3 lb. sugar 2 pints boiling water 1 oz. tartaric acid.
Wash, halve, squeeze the lemons. Mince or chop finely the rinds. Add sugar and boiling water. Stir. Let stand for twenty-four hours. Dissolve tartaric acid in a little hot water and add to mixture. Stir, strain and bottle.
This makes three and a half pints of concentrated juice, for about 3s. 6d. I have made orange with one and a half pounds of sugar to four medium oranges, and am at present experimenting with grapefruit.
A steady intake of the commercial brands can be ruinously expensive, and I have certainly never come
across one more like the real thing than this.—Yours faithfully, 41 Carton Street, WC1 R. J. STUDDLRI -KENNEDY
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