Old Fashioned Lemonade
By garciamoss
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups water
- Zest from one lemon
- 1 1/2 cups fresh lemon juice
- Ice cubes
- Cold water or sparkling water
- Lemons slices
- Fresh mint leaves
Details
Adapted from simplysogood.com
Preparation
Step 1
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.
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