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Lemonade
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Also known as Fresh Lemonade · Old-Fashioned Lemonade
Freshly squeezed lemon juice sweetened with a simple syrup infused with lemon zest, diluted with cold water and poured over ice. The American summer porch drink, sold at every child’s lemonade stand.
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- Servings
- Makes about 1.5 litres
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 5 min
- Total
- 1 h
Ingredients
lemons7
caster sugar200 g
water1¼ l
ice cubes1 bag
mint (optional)4 sprigs
Instructions
- 01
Scrub the . Pare the zest from 3 of them with a peeler, leaving the white pith behind, then squeeze 6 of them and keep the last lemon for serving. Heat the with 250 ml of the and the lemon zest until the dissolves. Leave to infuse for 10 minutes, then strain and cool.
- 02
Stir the juice into about three-quarters of the syrup.
- 03
Add the remaining 1 litre of , cold, and taste. Stir in the rest of the syrup if you like it sweeter.
- 04
Chill for at least 30 minutes. Slice the remaining and serve the lemonade over the with the slices, and a sprig of if you like.
Notes
- Making a syrup dissolves the sugar completely, so the lemonade is not gritty.
- Infusing the zest in the syrup adds a fragrant lemon oil flavour.
- Swap some of the water for sparkling water for a fizzy version.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 140 kcal
- Protein
- 0 g
- Carbs
- 36 g
- Fat
- 0 g
Estimated from the ingredients.
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