The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps

The pattern people's household book, 1927 — five hundred recipes, then how to lay a table, take out a stain and stock a first-aid cabinet.

Beverages

8 recipes in this part of The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps.

Reception Chocolate

Mix dry ingredients and make a smooth paste with some of the water. Pour on the remainder of the water and boil slowly for fifteen minutes…

Lemon Frost

Fill a tall glass one-fourth full of cracked ice, fiil three-fourths of lemonade full of lemonade and frost the top with a spoonful of…

Ginger-Ale Punch

Mix fruit-juices and sugar or sirup. Just before serving, add

Veranda Punch

Mix fruit-juice and sugar sirup. Add the hot tea. Cool, and, when ready to serve, add ginger ale and charged water. Thin slices of lemon…

Chilled Grape-Juice

Wash purple grapes and boil under skin, pulp and seeds separate. Press through jelly-bag and to every pint of juice add serve one-half cup…

Grape-Juice High Ball

Use Niagara grapes. Proceed as for recipe for chilled grapejuice. Serve in tall glasses half filled with shaved ice and add an addition…

Quaker Drink

Bruise mint in a pitcher and pour the tea over the fruit-juice, ginger mixed with two tablespoons hot water and the cold water. Chill and…

Orange Lily

Fill glass half full of shaved ice. Add grape-juice, orange-juice and sugar and fill with chilled water. Serve with two straws thrust…

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