The Best Lemonade Ever!

Submitted by DoryJean54

"I just had this today on Memorial Day at a cookout at my neighbors, it was so good & so strangely made I just had to get the recipe to post on Zaar for my friends. She got it from her boyfriend's mom in Arizona. So simple & so good! You just might want to double this, it will go fast!"

 

• Ready In: 10mins
• Ingredients: 4
• Yields: 1 quart
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 lemon (chopped up in pieces, rind & all)
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1 cup cold water
• 3 cups cold water

directions

1. Put chopped lemon rind & all in blender.
2. Add 1/2°C sugar.
3. Add 1°C of cold water, blend well.
4. Strain in fine mesh strainer.
5. Add 3 C.cold water to lemon water.
6. Makes 1 quart.
7. Serve ice cold & enjoy!

Reviews

[robyn win]

School Cooker, I think you'll find the pith is what is causing the bitterness. I make a very similar lemonade, but I peel the skin off the lemons with a potato peeler as thinly as possible, then peel the white pith off the lemon and disgard it. Then shove everything in the blender and continue.

 

[School cooker]

Hi, I had some beautiful Lemons so I tried this but it did not work out too well.I made one batch and it was way too sweet.It also had a very bitter after taste.So I did a second batch with half the sugar and it only had a bitter after taste and not much of a lemon tartness or flavor.Maybe Texas Lemons are the trick but we can't get them in Oregon