Tuesday 3 August 2010

Fresh lemonade

If you're lucky enough to have a lemon tree outside your back door,  making lemonade would seem a sensible thing to do.  But most recipes I've come across use loads and loads of sugar which doesn't sound  very healthy.  Yesterday I found a recipe that uses much less sugar and I made a double batch this morning.  It made over 2 litres,  we have just had a glass each with our lunch, diluted with gaseosa which is a Spanish drink, sort of a slightly sweetened lemony soda water. 

3 large lemons
90g sugar
750ml boiling water

Cut the lemons up into small pieces - peel, pips and all.
Add to a blender with 30g sugar and 250ml boiling water.
Whizz, strain and return pulp to blender.
30g more sugar, 250ml more water, whizz, strain and return pulp to blender.
30g more sugar, 250ml more water, whizz, strain and squeeze pulp.
Put in a bottle in the fridge to cool.

Apparently very nice with a drop of gin - or vodka if it's for me.   Might try a glass tonight.

I found the recipe here   - thank you  to Fergus and his human companions.

1 comment:

  1. peel pips and all? Thought you were taking the pith - less time consuming than juicing - will try - with the gin of course!
    I usually make it with juice the juice and a bit of ginger, like an old fashioned ginger ale, Fanta seems so synthethic after it.

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