Sweet natural lemonade for just pennies a glass!!!
Ingredients:
5-6 large lemons
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 cups water (brought to boiling)
2 quarts cold water
1. Place lemons in a heat-proof bowl and cover with boiling water and let stand for 5 minutes.
2. Remove lemons with tongs and place on a clean dishtowel.
3. Roll lemons under your hand to free up juice.
4. Slice lemons as thin as possible on a plate, reserving all juice.
5. Place lemon slices (and juice) in a bowl sprinkling with sugar as you go, using all of it.
6. Let stand for 30 minutes.
7. Use a potato masher to firmly press lemon slices extracting juice, while preserving the pulp.
8. Move contents of bowl to a large pitcher.
9. Fill with 2 quarts of water.
10. Stir and refrigerate until very cold.
Variations:
to make “pink” lemonade take 1 cup of water (out of the 2 qts) and 1/2 cup of fresh raspberries and puree them in a blender and add to pitcher along with rest of water
replace lemons with oranges (about 3 or 4 ) or limes (about 7 or 
to make orangeade or limeade; be aware that you may need to tweak the amount of sugar accordingly
if you’re serving this to adults too, lemonade can be tweaked nicely with vodka and blue curacao (add a shot of each to a tall glass and fill with lemonade)
Fixing mistakes:
too sweet – using a hand juicer squeeze the juice out of 1 more fruit at a time until you’re happy with the taste
too sour – add more sugar 1 tablespoon at a time until you’re satisfied
too strong – add more water, up to an additional quart, 1 cup at a time
Enjoy!!
Mama Kelly
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