My friend, Sharon, mentioned recently that her husband was whipping up a batch of fresh lemonade. This inspired me to give it a try. I always drink the lemonade at our state fair each summer. It's made with lemons and a bit of orange, too. It's really, really good (but way too expensive). When I lived in France during college, I used to drink fresh lemonade all the time. I don't know why I've never tried to make it...
...especially since, believe it or not, I have an electric juicer. It's only been used a couple of times to make orange juice. Of course, it works for lemonade, too.
The first step is to buy the lemons. It takes a LOT of lemons to make a modest amount of lemonade. I think a person should start with 10-12 lemons. Of course, when I saw the price of lemons, I only purchased four. :-)
The first step is to buy the lemons. It takes a LOT of lemons to make a modest amount of lemonade. I think a person should start with 10-12 lemons. Of course, when I saw the price of lemons, I only purchased four. :-)
Four lemons resulted a scant 10 ounces of juice. Don't drink it yet! It is very, very sour. :-) To this lemon juice, we added 1 cup of water and sugar to taste (at least 1/2 cup).
Pour over ice and drink. We ended up with two glasses of lemonade from this experiment. There wasn't much of it, but it was very yummy on a hot day.
6 comments:
It does sound good. I was looking at it when we were in the fridge section. Now you are making my mouth water..
I love fresh lemonade. It's very popular at all the fairs and such here in MN in the summer. And it is way too expensive also!
Oh that looks yummy! I love getting the fresh lemonade, though it usually only happens during fair time...
Delicious i felt the cool ice cubes as i read this post
Yum! That looks so refreshing. :)
Looks and sounds delicious!! I may have to give that a try :)
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