Lemonade

🍋 Chilled fresh lemon drink with still water and measured sugar.

Ingredients

• 150 ml freshly squeezed filtered yellow lemon juice
• 1 litre cold drinking water
• 40 g sugar

Preparation

Wash lemons before cutting. Prepare clean citrus press, sieve, jug and food bottle. Press enough fruit to measure 150 ml juice after filtering.

Filter to remove seeds and coarse pulp without crushing peels into liquid. Number of lemons varies with size and yield.

Pour about a quarter of measured water into jug and dissolve sugar stirring. Add filtered juice then remaining water, keeping total added water to one litre.

Mix, transfer into clean closed bottle and refrigerate 30 minutes at 4 °C or below. Drink is not carbonated or fermented.

Stir and divide into 4 glasses about 285 ml depending on small preparation losses. Reference: 15 minutes preparation, no cooking, 30 chilling, total 45 minutes. No ice, honey, sweetener or other flavouring.