How to Make Icy Cold Lemonade Like the Lemonade from Your Childhood

Use fresh lemons to make homemade lemonade.

Lemonade refreshes and hydrates you, and is especially enjoyable on a hot summer day. Sipping lemonade takes you back to your childhood when you played outside all day and your mother made you and your friends a nice, cold pitcher of lemonade. Homemade lemonade may be more refreshing than lemonade you can buy in a store, and offers a significant amount of Vitamin C. Quench your thirst with a batch of lemonade prepared with fresh lemons.

Things You'll Need

• Small saucepan
• 1 cup sugar
• 6 lemons
• Cutting board
• Knife
• Hand juicer
• Large pitcher
• 5 cups of water

Instructions

1. Place 1 cup of water in a small saucepan on the stove. Add 1 cup of sugar and bring the water to a boil.

2. Reduce the heat under the saucepan to medium and stir the sugar-water until the sugar is dissolved. Turn off the stove and let the water cool down.

3. Cut six lemons in half on a cutting board with a knife.

4. Juice the lemons using a hand juicer. Place a lemon on the juicer, and rotate it back and forth, twisting it with your wrist until juice has stopped coming from the lemon. Pour the lemon juice into a large pitcher.

5. Add 4 cups of cold water into the pitcher. Add the sugar-water to the pitcher. Stir all the ingredients together. Add a dozen ice cubes and serve your icy cold lemonade.

Tips & Warnings

• Roll the lemons on the counter by pressing down with your palm before juicing to release the juices.

• Serve the lemonade in a glass pitcher with a few thin slices of lemons floating on top for a nice presentation.

References

• Lemonade Recipe: Lemonade With a Twist : Adding Herbs