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Lemonade

Soft Drinks, Juices and Non-Alcoholic Refreshments

Lemonade is a beverage made from lemon juice, water and a sweetener, most often sugar, prepared in numerous regional styles around the world. Cloudy, still lemonade made at home or sold fresh, containing visible lemon pulp, is common in the United States, while clear, carbonated, commercially bottled lemonade is more typical in the United Kingdom and much of Europe. Lemonade has a long history reaching back centuries, with early lemon and sugar drinks recorded in medieval Egypt and later popularized in France, and it remains one of the most widely made and consumed non-alcoholic beverages, often prepared as a simple homemade drink as well as sold commercially.

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Origin Period, From (Year)
from 1150 1
Earliest documented lemon-based drink recipe is a 12th-century Egyptian medical treatise; lemonade reached Paris by 1676 (the Compagnie de Limonadiers) and England by the 1660s.
Origin Region
Egypt 1
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Lemon, Ingredients
Sugar, Ingredients
Sources
1. Lemonade (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHistory subsection
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One of the first recipes for a lemon-based drink was documented in the 12th century Egyptian treatise On Lemon, Its Drinking and Use by the court physician Ibn Jumay
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