Rose's lime juice

With Lime Juice Cordial, Lime Juice Cordial Mixer Lime Juice or short (of English lime juice lime juice = and = Cordial originally: tonic ) are referred to various soft drinks and sweetened additives that contain juice from limes.

Formulation and use

Unlike fresh lime juice Lime Juice Cordial is sweetened, but not as strong as lime syrup. Depending on the manufacturer of fruit juice content varies between 30 % and 50%. In addition to water, lime juice and sugar Lime Juice Cordial may also contain other citrus juices, flavors and preservatives.

The first known Lime Juice Cordial was made mid 19th century by Lauchlin Rose in Edinburgh. At that time, led ships for longer trips perishable stocks of citrus fruit or preserved with rum lime juice with it to prevent scurvy. The new Rose's Lime Juice would be better to store and be healthier by doing away with alcohol.

With modern methods of food preservation is in the shipping date, no Lime Juice Cordial longer needed, but it has established itself as a fundamental component of many classic cocktails, as fresh limes for example in Germany were difficult or not available until the 1990s,. Especially in older textbooks and cocktail recipes is therefore with the ingredient Lime Juice often not fresh lime juice - ( fresh ) lime juice - but a Lime Juice Cordial meant. Traditionally, the Gimlet with Lime Juice Cordial is prepared.

Rose's Lime Juice

1865 Rose founded the company L. Rose & Company and let the process patented in 1867. In the same year the Merchant Shipping Act was passed, which required all ships of the Royal Navy and all British merchant ships, auszuschenken lime juice in daily rations to the crew. The most important supplier was the L. Rose & Company. 1895, the company acquired its own plantations on Dominica, 1924 on the Gold Coast, now Ghana. 1957 Schweppes acquired the company. Later, the part of the company moved to the U.S. and eventually became part of the newly founded in 2008, Dr Pepper Snapple Group. Rose's Lime Juice - abbreviated often referred to simply as Rose 's - is still produced today, but the recipes differ depending on the market easily. In Germany, Rose's Lime Juice Schweppes Germany manufactured and sold, a company of Krombacher Group.