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Highball · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 3/5

American Lemonade

American Lemonade is lemon juice, powdered sugar, orange, raspberry syrup, and shaved ice with seasonal berries.

lemon · raspberry · orange · summer · temperance

Served in Soda-water glass. Ice: Shaved ice.

Variants (3)

The Gentleman's Table Guide by E. Ricket and C. Thomas (1871, p.51)

0.5 lemonlemon juice base
berries — berries in seasongarnish
1 sliceOrange garnish
ice — shaved iceother
1 tablespoonRaspberry syrup sweetener
1 tablespoonsugar — powdered sugar or candysweetener
  1. Place the lemon juice, sugar, orange slice, and raspberry syrup in a soda-water glass.
  2. Fill the tumbler half full of shaved ice.
  3. Ornament with berries in season and serve with two straws.

Garnish: Seasonal berries

Ice: Shaved ice

Recipes of American and Other Iced Drinks by Charlie Paul (1902, p.11)

1lemon juice — whole lemonbase
water — Used to fill the glass.dilution
1lemon slice — slice of lemongarnish
1.5 tsppowdered sugar sweetener
  1. Fill a soda-water glass with chipped ice.
  2. Squeeze in the whole lemon, add the sugar, fill up with water, shake well, place a slice of lemon on top, and serve with straws.

Garnish: Lemon slice

Ice: Chipped ice

L'Art du Shaker by Dominique Migliorero (1925, p.9)

2 lemonlemon juice — Lemon juiceacid
1 pieceice — Icebase
Seltzer water — Seltzer waterdilution
1 glassport wine — Portoother
2 spoonpowdered sugar — Powdered sugarsweetener
  1. Build in a large glass, stir well, and serve.

Ice: Ice

See also: Lemonade, Orangeade

The source line repeats fresh lemon juice in the final clause; treated as emphasis rather than a separate second lemon charge.