How to Make Homemade Lemonade Using Real Lemons
using real lemons!
Freshly Squeezed lemonade is an old-fashioned treat you can enjoy
all spring and summer long.
I bought this huge bag of lemons at Costco and I cut
them all in half. I'm going to take my strainer and
put it directly over my measuring cup.
And squeeze the lemon juice right into
it using my handy dandy little hand
juicer. The strainer will catch all of
the seeds and pulp leaving
nothing but the juice. I love this little
hand juicer because it really digs
in there and get all of the juice out.
When you're using fresh lemons it's hard
to predict how much lemon juice you'll
get from each one so when you're making
homemade lemonade it's important to
squeeze the lemon juice first because
homemade lemonade is all about the ratio.
It looks like we have about 2
cups which is perfect. So now I'm going to
pour this directly into a pitcher and
then head on over to the stove to make
our simple syrup. We have a saucepan we'll get it heating here. And since we had two cups of
lemon juice we will pour in 2 cups of water. You want to use the same ratio here and then 2 cups of
sugar. You can see that the liquid is looks all milky. You want to start this over the
heat until it goes clear again. This part
is chemistry in action! You're really
dissolving the sugar into the water to
form a solution. The heat is what allows
the sugar to dissolve completely. If you
just put it in cold water and threw it
together you would have something but this will create a smooth textured simple syrup
that will be perfect for lemonade. It
really doesn't take long for that sugar
to dissolve. The solution has a little
bit of a yellowish tint to it but it'll
be clear and that's how you know it's
done. So, remove it from the heat and pour
this directly in with your lemonade
Lemon juice, I meant to put it iin with the
lemon juice not the lemonade. Putting it
together is when it becomes lemonade. Now at this point you can actually freeze this
for later enjoyment. Just pour it in
gallon ziplock bag and lay it flat in
the freezer. But I'm not gonna do that
today. I want to enjoy it fresh so at
this point you'll just add water to
personal taste. Some people like their
lemonade super strong while other people like it a
little more on the weak side and that's
ok. You can also add in fresh lemon to
make it all pretty...lots of ice because
that's syrup is hot. And then pour yourself
a delicious glass of fresh squeezed
