Anne Of Green Gables Lemonade

 

Old Fashioned Lemonade

1 ½ cups sugar

1 ½ cups water

Zest from one lemon

1 ½ cups fresh lemon juice

Ice cubes

Cold water or sparkling water

Lemons slices

Fresh mint leaves

Measure the sugar and water into a sauce pan. While stirring with a wooden spoon, bring the mixture to a boil for 5 minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat. Let cool slightly.

Add fresh squeezed lemon juice and lemon zest to the sugar syrup. Cool completely. Pour the lemonade syrup into a quart jar. Cover tightly with the lid. The syrup can be kept in the refrigerator for 2 or 3 weeks.

When you’re read to serve the lemonade, put some ice cubes in the bottom of a glass. Our ¼ cup of the lemon syrup over the ice cubes. Add ¾ cup cold water or sparkling water and stir.

Float a thin slice of lemon and, if you like, a fresh mint leaf on top of each glass.

The recipe makes enough syrup for 14 glasses of lemonade.

Pink lemonade:  add 1/2 cup grenadine syrup to the jar of lemonade syrup and stir.

Strawberry lemonade:  add 2 tablespoons of puree of fresh strawberries into each glass.

Limeade: Replace lemon with lime juice and lime zest.