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Homemade Lemonade Recipe
This easy Homemade Lemonade recipe uses fresh lemon juice, homemade simple syrup, and water for a perfectly balanced, sweet-tart batch of lemonade!
👥 9 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 15 min⏳ Prep: 15 min👤 Jess Rice📖 budgetbytes
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●peeler
- ●bowl
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Gather your ingredients.
2
Peel a lemon
3
Peel 1 lemon with a vegetable peeler and reserve the peels.
4
Make simple syrup
simple syrup ($0.34)1 cup
5
Make our homemade simple syrup recipe, adding the peels from 1 lemon during the cooking process.
simple syrup ($0.34)1 cup
6
Cool
7
Once sugar has dissolved, let the lemon simple syrup cool slightly until warm.
simple syrup ($0.34)1 cup
8
Juice the lemons
fresh lemons (3 cups juice, $5.96)2 lbs
9
Juice all but 2 lemons, cutting those 2 into wheels.
fresh lemons (3 cups juice, $5.96)2 lbs
10
Combine
11
Pour warm simple syrup over the sliced lemons in a large carafe or punch bowl.
simple syrup ($0.34)1 cupfresh lemons (3 cups juice, $5.96)2 lbs
12
Add lemon juice
13
Then, add lemon juice.
14
Add cold water
cold water ($0.00)5 cups
15
Then, add cold water.
cold water ($0.00)5 cups
16
Mix in salt
17
Add a pinch of salt and stir to combine. Serve over ice and enjoy!
pinch of salt ($0.01)
Nutrition Facts
calories
130 kcal
fat Content
0.3 g
serving Size
1 cup
fiber Content
3 g
sodium Content
30 mg
protein Content
1 g
carbohydrate Content
37 g
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