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The ladies of 1870s Chicago pooled their recipes and signed every one — corned beef from Mrs. Beaty, lemon pie from Mrs. Saulter.

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Lemon Syrup (II)

Mrs. Christopher Patterson.

Seven pounds of loaf sugar, three quarts of water, four ounces of citric acid, one drachm of oil of le mon.

Dissolve acid in warm water; mix; don't put the acid in a brass kettle; when quite cold put in the oil of lemon and bottle.

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