Warm Homemade Lemonade (N/A)

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Warm Homemade Lemonade - N/A
Southern Living Magazine Editors - 2010

Makes 9 cups

Ingredients
32.0-oz (1-QT/ 4 cups) water
24.0-oz (3 cups) fresh lemon juice, about 13 lemons
1-3/4 to 2 cups sugar
2.0-oz (1/4 cup)  honey

Garnish:
9 (4-inch) cinnamon sticks

Preparation

Combine first 4 ingredients in a 3- or 3 1/2-quart slow cooker. Cover and cook on Low for 3 hours, or until thoroughly heated.

Whisk well before serving warm with a cinnamon stick.

Source:  Slow-Cooker Quick Fixes: Recipes for Everyday Cover 'n Cook Convenience (Birmingham: Oxmoor House, 2010). 

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Ingredients
1 gallon water

1-LB white sugar

2 pints honey

2 lemons

4 cloves

1/2-oz root ginger

2 sprigs rosemary

1-oz yeast

Preparation

Boil together the water, sugar and honey; skim off the scum. Stand in basin. Add juice of both lemons and peel of one.

Add cloves, well-bruised ginger and rosemary. When at blood temperatures or less, add yeast. This will start fermentation which should be allowed to go on for 6 days. Remove the lemon peel after 3 days.

On day 7, bottle and cork lightly.


Source: Junior League of Lafayette, Inc, Talk About Good! (Memphis: Wimmer Brothers, 1969), 5.

Hot Toddy

• Apple Brandy Hot Toddies for 8
• Ginger Toddy
• Spiced Rum Toddy

Photo: Rob Howard via Food and Wine

Apple-Brandy Hot Toddies
Suzanne Bozarth - 2006

Makes 8 drinks

Ingredients
12.00-oz (1.5 cups) water
1.33-oz (2 Tbsp plus 2 tsp) honey
4.00-oz (0.5 cup) fresh lemon juice
16.00-oz (2 cups) apple brandy (Calvados)

Garnish:
8 (3-inch) cinnamon sticks

Preparation

In small saucepan, bring the water to a boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the honey until dissolved.

Stir in the lemon juice and apple brandy.

Set a cinnamon stick in each of 8 mugs or heatproof glasses; pour in the hot liquid and serve.

Source:  Suzanne Bozarth of Paley's Place in Portland, Oregon via Food and Wine Magazine (February 2006)

Ginger Toddy

The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur

Makes 1

Ingredients
2.00-oz The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur
1/2 tsp sugar
3 drops lemon juice


Preparation
Pour all ingredients into a mug; fill with steamy hot water.

Source: World Ltd, The Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur: Superb cocktail and cooking recipes (Philadelphia), 6