Lemonade for Invalids

Ingredients

• 1/2 lemon
• lump sugar to taste
• 1 pint boiling water

Instructions

1. Pare off the rind of the lemon thinly;
2. cut the lemon into 2 or 3 thick slices, and remove as much as possible of the white outside pith, and all the pips.
3. Put the slices of lemon, the peel, and lump sugar into a jug;
4. pour over the boiling water;
5. cover it closely, and in 2 hours it will be fit to drink.
6. It should either be strained or poured off from the sediment.