{"id":1239,"date":"2015-07-01T03:05:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2019-08-26T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T20:37:25","slug":"when-life-gives-you-lemons-a-history-of-lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/when-life-gives-you-lemons-a-history-of-lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"When Life Gives you Lemons (A History of Lemonade)"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time:<\/b> <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

When life gives us lemons, we blend an incredible new mat\u00e9. This July, we\u2019re introducing a sensational Tea of the Month, Electric Lemonade<\/a><\/span>. This super-charged citrus supernova is guaranteed to give you a major boost. But it got us wondering\u2026\u00a0what\u2019s the story behind lemonade?<\/p>\n

That cool refreshing drink<\/h3>\n

While the lemon\u2019s origins can be traced back to Northern India and China, the first reference to a sweet lemon drink dates back to 11th century Egypt, in the writings of Persian poet and adventurer Nasir Khusraw. Further evidence of this ancient drink come from records of the Cairo Geniza, which from the 1100\u2019s to the 1300\u2019s, would trade qatarmizat, a sweetened, bottled lemon juice. Sounds refreshing!<\/p>\n

French connection<\/h3>\n

Although sweetened lemon drinks had already existed for centuries, a beverage resembling modern-day lemonade wasn\u2019t introduced until 1667, where it appeared in Fran\u00e7ois Pierre de La Varenne\u2019s cookbook, Le Confiturier Fran\u00e7ais. The recipe read as follows:<\/p>\n

\"Lemonade<\/p>\n

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Lemonade<\/p>\n

Take one pint of water. Add \u00bd pound of sugar, the juice of six lemons and two oranges, the zest of \u00bd lemon and the zest of 1 orange. Mix the water well well\u00a0in 2 clean containers by pouring it in one and then into the other several times. Strain through a white napkin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Less than a decade after Varenne\u2019s recipe appeared, chilled lemon drinks had grown in popularity, and in 1676, the Parisian Compagnie de Limonadiers was granted exclusive rights to sell lemonade. At the time, vendors would distribute the beverage by the cup, from tanks carried upon their backs\u2026 a practice that some tea companies carry on to this very day.<\/p>\n

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The grand stand<\/h3>\n

In front yards and on sidewalks across North America, it\u2019s not hard to find entrepreneurial youngsters doling out cups of lemonade for a quarter or two. But the very first lemonade stand can be credited to Brooklyn\u2019s Edward Bok. In the 1870\u2019s, a 10-year old Bok started selling ice water to horse cart passengers for a penny a cup. Some other boys caught wind and quickly copied Bok\u2019s business model. To stay ahead of the pack, he added lemon juice and sugar to the water, and started charging 3 cents a glass. It was a hit, and a very profitable endeavour. In fact, Bok\u2019s concept was so successful that it was replicated around town, and by the 1880\u2019s, scores of these stands were opening up around the city. We think it\u2019s safe to say that this tradition will [lemonade] stand the test of time.<\/p>\n

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The Lemonade Stand [Advertisement],” in Children and Youth in History, Item #245, https:\/\/chnm.gmu.edu\/cyh\/primary-sources\/245 (accessed June 15, 2015). Annotated by Robert W. Sexty<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time:<\/b> <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>We all know lemonade is a nostalgic taste of summer. But it’s more than just retro… it’s ancient!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[196,194,156],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-history","tag-lemonade","tag-tea-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11037,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/11037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}