Seville Orangeade

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 10 -12 seville oranges, washed and scrubbed clean
• 1 cup sugar
• the juice from one large lemon
• 5 cups cold filtered water

Recipe

• 1 cut the oranges in half lengthwise and then slice them into thin 1/8-inch slices.
• 2 put them in a large flat-bottomed non-reactive bowl. stir in the sugar. use a potato masher to mash the orange slices until most of the segments are juiced.
• 3 pour water into the bowl of orange slices. stir to mix gently, making sure that any undissolved sugar gets completely dissolved. stir in the lemon juice.
• 4 set a large fine mesh strainer over another large bowl and strain the orange mixture through it, pressing if necessary to get out as much of the juice as possible. pour into a serving pitcher.