Freshly Squeezed Real Lemonade

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
• 1 1/3 cups water
• 8 whole lemons
• 2 quarts water
• ice

Recipe

• 1 start by making your simple syrup. this will be used to sweeten your lemonade (instead of plain granulated sugar) if you like a sweeter lemonade you may want to make more syrup & add it to your taste. just stick with the 1 part sugar to 1 part water ratio.
• 2 combine the 1 1/3 cups water with the 1 1/3 cups sugar in a medium sauce pan.
• 3 while stirring, bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat.
• 4 allow the mixture to slowly boil for about 2 minutes, or until the sugar is completely dissolved.
• 5 remove the simple syrup mixture from the heat and allow it to cool.
• 6 for the lemonade:.
• 7 cut each lemon in half & use a juicer to get all the juice from each lemon.
• 8 use a spoon to dig out the pulp from the lemon halves.
• 9 put the lemon juice, pulp & rines into a serving container (plastic jug, dispenser etc).
• 10 add the 2 quarts of cold water & the 2 2/3 cups simple syrup.
• 11 allow the mixture to chill in the fridge until you are going to use.
• 12 to serve:.
• 13 fill a glass 3/4 full with ice.
• 14 pour the chilled lemonade mixture over the ice & enjoy.