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 Jumayʿ. A drink made with lemons, dates, and honey was consumed in Mamluk Egypt, as well as a lemon juice drink with sugar known as qatarmizat in the 13th century. An Egyptian recipe for lemonade has been used in England since 1663 and Samuel Pepys consumed it in the 1660s. In 1676, a company known as "Compagnie de Limonadiers" sold lemonade in Paris. Vendors carried tanks of lemonade on their backs and dispensed cups of the soft drink to Parisians.A recipe for lemonade in John Nott's early 18th century Cooks and confectioners Dictionary included oil of sulphur. Uncarbonated lemonade was a popular drink in the UK in the early 19th century, with Maria Rundell's A New System of Domestic Cookery (1807) including a recipe. While a method for carbonated water was discovered by Joseph Priestley in 1767 (with his pamphlet Directions for Impregnating Water with Fixed Air published in London in 1772), the first reference found to carbonated lemonade was in 1833 when the drink was sold in British refreshment stalls.
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