A couple of weeks ago we got the family together to make some home made drinks, of the non-alcoholic variety (yeah, I know!) and one of the things we made was old fashioned lemonade. This stuff is simple and quick to make so if your lemon tree is firing and the guest for you part are an hour away you might want to consider giving it a go!
To make a batch you will need –
6 cups of water
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of lemon juice
Take one cup of your water and heat it up a bit, dump in the sugar and stir to dissolve. Extract the juice from your lemons, how many you will need depends on the size and juiciness of your lemons. We used half a dozen and extracted the juice with one of those level action juicers. They use no power but give you some extra oomph to get all the juice out. As luck would have it we used lemonades rather than lemons and could have wound back the sugar a bit as a result, but the final product was still pretty good.
When your sugar solution is cool, mix in the lemon juice and dilute with the remaining 5 cups of water. For a quicker drink that is really nice stick some soda water in the fridge and use it as the final 5 cups to dilute the lemonade with. You now have fully functional lemonade which is ready to drink or can be bottled and put into the fridge. If you don’t want to use soda water and have a Sodastream set up you could use that instead.
