Pare five dozen of lemons very thin, put the peels into five quarts
of French brandy, and let them stand fourteen days. Then make the
juice into a syrup with 3 lbs. of single refined sugar, and when the
peels are ready, boil 51 gallons of water, with 40 lbs. of single
refined sugar for half an hour. Then put it into a tub, and when
cool, add to it one spoonful of yeast, and let it work two days.
Then tun it, and put in the brandy, peels, and syrup. Stir them
altogether, and close up the cask. Let it stand three months, then
bottle it, and it will be as pale and as fine as any citron water.