Recipe for Easy Homemade Lemonade

This recipe makes a lemonade concentrate that you can use to make lemonade of any strength. It's cheaper than buying frozen lemonade, and MUCH cheaper than buying soda pop. Here's what you need:

Tools:

2 cup	measuring cup	500 ml (= 5 dl)
4 cup	measuring cup	1000 ml (= 10 dl)
1	long-handled wooden spoon
1 large	serving pitcher	(holds at least 4 cps.=1000 ml of liquid)

Ingredients:

1 ¾ cups	(granulated) white sugar	410 ml
1 ⅓ cups	lemon juice	310 ml

Notes and Substitutions:

Sugar: if you find that this makes a lemonade that is too sweet for you, decrease the amount of sugar to 1 ⅔ cups or even 1 ½ cups.
Lemon juice: I use bottled lemon juice, because it's much less effort. I buy the largest-size bottle of no-name lemon juice. If you decide to used real lemons, you will need quite a few lemons: depending on the size and juiciness of the lemons, it takes 6 or more lemons to make 1 cup (approx. 250 ml) of lemon juice. Thus, you will need a minimum of 8 lemons for this recipe. That's a LOT of squeezing, and that's why I use bottled lemon juice.
4 cup measuring cup: you can substitute a bowl which holds at least 4 cups (1000 ml) of liquid.

Directions for making Lemonade Concentrate:

Put about 2 1/2 cups (600 ml) of water to boil. (You will only use 2 cups (i.e. 500 ml), but a certain amount of water boils away in the process.)
Measure 1 ¾ cups (410 ml) of sugar and put it in the bottom of the 4 cup (1000 ml) measuring cup.
When water comes to a rolling boil, pour the boiling water into the 2 cup (500 ml) measuring cup—enough so that it reaches the 2 cup (500 ml) line, but not over it. Then pour this 2 cups (500 ml) of very hot water carefully into the 4 cup measuring cup (i.e. the one which already has the sugar in it).
With the wooden spoon, gently lift and stir the sugar until it is completely dissolved in the hot water. This should only take a minute or so.
Pour in the lemon juice and mix well.
Pour into your serving pitcher and let cool for half an hour or more. Then place it in your refrigerator and let it get completely cold.
This is the lemonade concentrate. To make the lemonade, you will also need cold water and ice cubes, so make sure you keep both of these in the fridge and freezer (respectively).

Directions for making a glass of lemonade:

Pour lemonade concentrate into glass so that it fills about ¼ of the glass.
(You can fill the glass ⅓ full, if you like your lemonade quite sweet, or less than ¼ full, if you don't like your lemonade quite so strong. )
Add cold water so that the glass is about ¾ full.
Add 2 - 6 ice cubes (depending on how much you want to dilute the lemonade; the fewer the ice cubes, the stronger the lemonade).
Now stir and drink.

It's delicious!

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Disclaimer: while these recipes are the result of years of experience and/or lots of research, in the end they are just my personal preference. If you try something I suggest and it doesn't work for you, please don't sue me — I guarantee nothing. Best of luck!