Life With Delia

This lemonade is the perfect balance between tangy, sweet, and refreshing flavors. This is a delicious beverage to have on hand and is so easy to make. It is relatively healthy besides the added sugar and is pretty inexpensive to make. It doesn’t last long in my household! Even my toddler loves it. Any time I make it, I hear “I need more lemonade” all day long.

Ingredients

• 6 cups of water
• About 2 cups of lemon juice (8-10 lemons)
• 3/4 to 1 cup of organic sugar
• 1/8 tsp salt

Directions

Make your cane sugar syrup

1. Mix 1 cup of water with 1 cup of sugar in a pot on the stove. Set to high heat and stir occasionally. Once mixture is boiling, immediately remove it from heat and stir.
2. Set aside to cool.

Make your lemonade

1. Juice your lemons and put the juice in the half-gallon pitcher.
2. Fill up the pitcher about halfway with water.
3. Add in the cane sugar syrup you just made.
4. Fill up the rest of the pitcher with water.
5. Add 1/8 tsp salt and stir well.
6. Serve.

Yield

This will make half a gallon of lemonade (8 servings of 8oz).

How to adjust the recipe for single-serve lemonade

If you just want one glass (8oz) of lemonade then simply use the following ratios:
– 6oz water
– 1 lemon
– 1/8 cup sugar
– pinch of salt

Notes & Tips

If you want slightly sweeter lemonade then you can achieve this by roasting half to all of your halved lemons at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes before juicing.

Sometimes when I’m sick, I will boil all of the lemon juice and 5 cups of water over the stove with about 2-4 of the lemon rinds (after they are halved and juiced) and fresh chopped ginger added in for an immune boost. Lemon rinds contain more nutrients than the lemon juice. Once the mixture starts boiling, remove from heat. Add in the sugar syrup and salt at this point. You can serve warm or allow to cool and store in the refrigerator. When served warm, I usually add a little honey as well.