Making Lemonade with Real Lemons
They say that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This week my mother-in-law provided me with a giant bag full of lemons plucked from the tree outside her house, so I set about making lemonade with real lemons.
This is a really quick and easy recipe, so it’s great if friends have just popped round unexpectedly, and went down very well during our Portuguese lesson yesterday! It’s also very refreshing – perfect as Portugal warms up for another hot summer season.
Lemonade Ingredients
Lemonade with Real Lemons
250 ml water
1 cup sugar
250 ml lemon juice
1 litre water (additional)
1. Put 250 ml water in a pan with the sugar. Heat gently and stir frequently until the sugar has dissolved.
2. Turn off the heat, then stir in the lemon juice.
3. Add the litre of water to dilute the mixture and stir thoroughly.
4. Serve in large pitchers full of ice, with a few lemon slices thrown in if you wish.
I never realised quite how easy it was to make lemonade with real lemons, and will be doing so again.
For anyone reading this post wishing they lived somewhere where life’s problems include having too many lemons to know what to do with, I highly recommend this book:
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia (The Lemons Trilogy)
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We actually did the same, the other week, when friends, who were coming for dinner, brought us a large bag of oranges and lemons.
Similar recipe to yours although I did find that we would have preferred a lot less sugar to lemon juice (recipe is approx 1:1, I think we prefer our lemonade sharper so will probably do 1:2 next time)
Still, dead easy to do and you get a lot of lemonade for your lemons
Wish I had someone to bring us free ones regularly though. We have to buy ours now!
If you find yourself down our way give us a shout – we have a glut – oranges too!
There really isn’t anything like real lemonade! I’ve tended to make mine with less sugar but what an easy recipe!
PS: Read that book awhile back and quite liked it!