Simple Fruit Drinks for Picnics.

Five and half pints cold water. Bring to the boil in an enamelled pan, or a tin lined copper pan. As soon as it is boiling, put in 6 lbs. of good white sugar. Stir well while boiling for 2 or 3 minutes, when the sugar will be completely dissolved. Allow to partly cool, and strain through fine muslin.

These quantities will produce approximately one gallon of syrup. In making fruit syrups, part of the water is replaced by fruit juices. The addition of citric acid to the water, using 1/2 oz. citric acid for each gallon of finished syrup, will prevent the finished syrup from depositing crystals of sugar.

In making artificial syrups, the flavouring essence is added to the warm syrup after it has been strained.

The proportion of flavouring to syrup is 1 tablespoonful to 5 1/2 pints of water.