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Date: August 02, 2019 04:05AM
It's friday! Here is what your parents or grandparents may have partaken of.
From the Relief Society magazine March 1962.
Beverages before dinner by Winnifred Jardine.
Cranberry Eggnog
Beat 2 eggs, 1/2 cup sugar and 1/8 tsp salt until thick.
Blend in 1/4 cup lemon juice, 1 1/2 cup orange juice and 2 cups cranberry juice. Pour over cracked ice.
Party Pink Drink
Cut 4 cups rhubarb in 1 inch pieces. Combine 2 cups water, 2cups sugar and rhubarb. Simmer until tender. Strain then freeze juice.
To serve spoon softened frozen juice into glass and fill with ginger ale.
Mandatory Jello drink
Raspberry Float
Dissolve 9 oz raspberry flavored gelatin in 4 cups boiling water; add 1 1/2 cup sugar, 4 cups cold water, 1/2 cup lime juice, 1 1/2 cups lemon juice and 2 1/4 cups orange juice; cool but don't allow to congeal.
To serve, pour into punch bowl, add 1 quart ginger ale and 20 oz raspberries. Stir regularly.
Other drinks included
Hot spiced fruit punch
Frozen banana crush
Mulled apricot nectar
Grape cooler
And a full page of tomato juice coctails. Various ingredients included
Minced onions
Clam juice
Sauerkraut juice
Bullion
Anchovy paste
(No not all in the same drink. Just odd combinations)
Side note. I remember the Tiffin Room in ZCMI served tomatoe juice cocktails.