Old Fashioned Lemonade 1 ½ cups sugar 1 ½ cups water Zest from one lemon 1 ½ cups fresh lemon juice Ice cubes Cold water or sparkling water Lemons slices Fresh mint leaves Measure the sugar and water into a sauce pan. While stirring with a wooden spoon, bring the mixture to a boil for 5 minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat. Let cool slightly. Add fresh squeezed lemon juice and lemon zest to the sugar syrup. Cool completely. Pour the lemonade syrup into a quart jar. Cover tightly with the lid. The syrup can be kept in the refrigerator for 2 or 3 weeks. When you’re read to serve the lemonade, put some ice cubes in the bottom of a glass. Our ¼ cup of the lemon syrup over the ice cubes. Add ¾ cup cold water or sparkling water and stir. Float a thin slice of lemon and, if you like, a fresh mint leaf on top of each glass. The recipe makes enough syrup for 14 glasses of lemonade. Pink lemonade: add 1/2 cup grenadine syrup to the jar of lemonade syrup and stir. Strawberry lemonade: add 2 tablespoons of puree of fresh strawberries into each glass. Limeade: Replace lemon with lime juice and lime zest. Print this recipe Wouldnt it be great if Mimi was your neighbor and brought you fresh lemons from her mothers tree? I hope you have time this summer to sit on your patio with a cooling glass of lemonade while reading Anne (with an e) of Green Gables. ...Anne had brought glasses and lemonade for her guests, but for her own part drank cold brook water from a cup fashioned out of birch bark...Anne thought it more appropriate to the occasion than lemonade.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 03:57:47 +0000
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