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9 servings
This easy Homemade Lemonade recipe uses fresh lemon juice, homemade simple syrup, and water for a perfectly balanced, sweet-tart batch of lemonade!
Ingredients
1 cup simple syrup ($0.34)
5 cups cold water ($0.00)
2 lbs fresh lemons (3 cups juice, $5.96)
Instructions
1
Gather your ingredients.
2
Peel a lemon
3
Peel 1 lemon with a vegetable peeler and reserve the peels.
4
Make simple syrup
5
Make our homemade simple syrup recipe, adding the peels from 1 lemon during the cooking process.
6
Once sugar has dissolved, let the lemon simple syrup cool slightly until warm.
7
Juice the lemons
8
Juice all but 2 lemons, cutting those 2 into wheels.
9
Pour warm simple syrup over the sliced lemons in a large carafe or punch bowl.
10
Add lemon juice
11
Then, add lemon juice.
12
Add cold water
13
Then, add cold water.
14
Mix in salt
15
Add a pinch of salt and stir to combine. Serve over ice and enjoy!
