I do enjoy real lemonade when I can get it. I found a lovely recipe in Cooks Summer Grilling and Entertaining that is excellent- It involves a dozen well scrubbed lemons, cut in half from pole to pole, and then sliced thinly and thoroughly muddled with 1 1/4 cup of sugar. The recipe suggests using a potato masher to get the maximum amount of juice and lemon oil out of the lemon slices. Then you add about 5 cups of cold water to the resulting lemon syrup, and serve over ice.
Mashing the lemons gives them an incredible flavor boost.
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Date: 2007-07-21 02:01 pm (UTC)Mashing the lemons gives them an incredible flavor boost.
Beats powdered lemonade by a mile.