Syrup (Lemon)

Instructions

1. Squeeze the juice of fifty lemons, and for every quart of lemon juice take three pounds of sugar. Strain the lemon juice before mixing it with the sugar.
2. Let the lemon juice and sugar dissolve in an earthen jar placed in a saucepan of boiling water.
3. Let it simmer in this manner till all the sugar is melted and the whole is a rich, thick syrup.
4. Bottle when cold, and cork well.
5. A delicious drink in hot weather.