Recipe # 18 Old-Fashioned Lemonade

Old-Fashioned Lemonade

Ingredients

• 6 lemons
• 1 cup white sugar
• 6 cups cold water

Directions

1. Juice the lemons to make 1 cup of juice. To make your labor easier, FIRMLY roll the lemons between your hand and counter top before cutting in half and juicing.
2. In a gallon pitcher combine 1 cup lemon juice, 1 cup sugar, and 6 cups cold water. Stir. Adjust water to taste. Chill and serve over ice.

A nice thing to make when it gets warmer outside is ice cold lemonade. It brings me back to my days as a child with a lemonade stand. I got this recipe from allrecipes.com Thanks! Go check them out for more recipes with lemons. And don't forget the famous saying: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!"

Happy juicing,

Tiffany

Here's a twist thanks to Martha Stewart and bfeedme.com:

Strawberry Lemonade

Ingredients:

1  pint strawberries  

8  tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons superfine sugar  

8  tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice  

Seltzer water AKA Sparkling water

What’s Next:

Before squeezing juice from the lemons, roll them on the countertop, applying gentle pressure with the heel of your palm. This will really get the lemons’ juices flowing and make it easier to squeeze them.


Purée strawberries and 2 teaspoons sugar in a blender. Set out two glasses, and spoon 3 tablespoons of the resulting strawberry purée, 4 tablespoons sugar, and 4 tablespoons lemon juice into each glass. Stir the lemonade, and add ice. Top off the glasses with seltzer water. Add more sugar if desired.  And that’s all, good work!

Enjoy! Until next time.