Combine in a saucepan:
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of water
rind of two lemons cut into pieces
Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved. Boil about 7 minutes. Cool.
Add:
1 cup of lemon juice (5 to 6 lemons)
4 cups of ice water
Pour over ice in pitcher or tall glasses.
Amount: 6 to 8 servings
(From the Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook published by Macmillan in 1950, the cookbook of my youth, found fortuitously by my mother at Restoration Hardware in 1999.)
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