Lemonade

photo courtesy of Martha Stewart

So my gramma has this beautiful lemon tree. It is seriously perfect. And it has tons and tons of lemons.

I love it.

But the problem with a very fruitful lemon tree is ALL the lemons it produces and keeping it up with it.

So in late January, she dropped off a big bag of lemons of 10-12 lemons.

Sounds great right?

And it was. And the lemons are SO tasty.

But the problem with 10-12 lemons, is trying to use them all!!

I felt like I was drowning in lemons.

So I decided it was time to figure out what to do with the lemons. And that's when i figured it out...LEMONADE!

So I googled a recipe and got to work. I was a little scared since B and I are AVID Simply Lemonade drinkers. But this lived up to yummy goodness. And who knew it would be so easy??

So here we go:

Perfect Lemonade Recipe

Makes: 6 servings

Ingredients:

-1 cup sugar (can reduce to 3/4 cup)

-1 cup water (for the simple syrup)

-1 cup lemon juice

-3 to 4 cups cold water (to dilute)

Directions:

The recipe says the secret to the lemonade is to start by making the sugar syrup. Make simple syrup by heating sugar and water in a small saucepan until the sugar is dissolved completely. While sugar is dissolving, use a juicer to extract the juice from 4 to 6 lemons, enough enough for one cup of juice. Add the juice and the sugar water to a pitcher. Add 3 to 4 cups of cold water, more or less to the desired strength. Refrigerate 30 to 40 minutes. If lemonade is a little sweet for your taste, add a little more straight lemons. Serve with ice, slice lemons.

Mama Heada Thoughts:

So here's how we roll...I had ten lemons and it gave me 1 1/2 cup of lemon juice. So I made 1 1/2 batches of the lemonade I did 1 1/4 cup of sugar for the simple syrup. And in the end added 5 cups of cold water. And you know what? It was YUMMY. M thought it was sweet but he's not much of a lemon person. I usually drink it straight. But have also drank it watered down. Both were yummy. My juicer did a great job and I loved the lemonade, but I felt like the peel gave the lemonade a kick. So I might leave that out next time too. I also gave a very watered down version to Little Miss B. And oh my gawsh. She was hooked. But that girl would eat lemons every day if I let her.

This is gonna be great in the summer time. I can't wait. I already got a new bag from Gramma to make more. YUM-MY!