Grapefruit Cocktail
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Grapefruit Cocktail

Ingredients

  • 6 grapefruit
  • 12 cherries
  • 12 tablespoon powdered sugar

Directions

  1. Cut the grapefruit in halves crosswise.
  2. Half a grapefruit is one service.
  3. Remove all the seeds.
  4. Insert a sharp-pointed knife between the outside skin or shell and the pulp, and cut out around the inside.
  5. Cut the skin away from each section of the pulp.
  6. Insert the knife under the core and cut free from the shell, iift out the core and membranes in one piece, leaving the pulp.
  7. Sprinkle each grapefruit half with one tablespoon of powdered sugar.
  8. Garnish with a maraschino cherry in the center and a mint leaf on each side.
  9. Serve very cold on a paper doily with some green rose leaves under the grapefruit.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Drink

Ingredients: grapefruit, cherry, powdered sugar

Equipment: measuring spoons, knife

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