This section is from the "A Bachelor's Cupboard" book, by John W. Luce.
This is a most innocent drink, despite its name, and one that a two-year-old may not hesitate to imbibe. Fill up a long glass, then, with lemon soda, the bottled variety, and in it dash a little raspberry syrup, and top off with a thin slice of orange.
FARMER'S DELIGHT
Mayhap you may be going to have a real, old-fashioned country picnic, at which rural dainties are served. They deserve to be washed down with the delight of the farmer, who swallows copious drafts of this in the hayfield on a hot July afternoon. It's nothing less than the " sweetened water " with which Plupy Shute regaled his friends up in Exeter in the days when the " Real Boy " penned that famous diary. Water is the basis, ginger the flavor, and molasses the sweetener. They are mixed to taste in a great stone jug, which is corked and set in a convenient brook to keep cool.
 
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