HOMEMADE LEMONADE

HOMEMADE LEMONADE

#Edited: This recipe was featured at Tasty Tuesday Creative kids weekly party on 13th January 2015.

Summer is in full swing in the northern hemisphere, though this is not my favourite season, but I like it when everything is green around here in Calgary. The best part of summer for me is when my grandchildren run around in the garden and enjoy their water bath with sprinklers, I know running around the garden means, coming again and again for a glass of water. Even us, in summer, we drink endless glasses of water.

Lemonade is the best summer drink and this recipe is very easy to make and very little ingredients are required. In this lemonade, no preservative or colour is added and it can last in the fridge for one month or more. I call it all-season-drink because it helps in managing symptoms like nausea, disturbances in stomach or indigestion. According to my explanation, it sounds like this is a medicine but actually, it is a cool drink which I can say from personal experience that it helps in managing these symptoms.

In 2011, I went to Delhi in July, to enjoy my holidays, which is the onset of the monsoon rains. This season is not good if you are travelling to Delhi because it is very hot and humid. Almost every day in the evening I was feeling uncomfortable as if I can not breathe properly or something like that because of the humidity. This lemonade was the only remedy, with added black salt and black pepper. A cool glass of this was all I needed to cool me down.

Instead of buying from the shop it is better to make lemonade at home. I tried many ready made ones from the shops but never enjoyed the taste as compared to this home made one. It is much better compared to fizzy drinks. According to Ayurveda, lemons have a cooling effect on the skin because they help us sweat and sweat facilitates the elimination of toxin through the skin so it is good in summer.

RECIPE

INGREDIENTS

• 1 kg sugar
• 300 ml lemon juice ( 6-8 big lemons)
• ½ liter water for syrup
• Black salt and pepper to taste, few leaves of mint. (to be added later individually for one serving)

METHOD

• Put water and sugar in a pot on a medium flame to make sugar syrup.
• One thread sugar syrup is required, it will take 15-20 minutes. Leave it to cool.
• Squeeze the juice from lemons carefully, and measure 300ml.
• When the sugar syrup is cold add the lemon juice in it.
• Keep in a sterilize glass jar or bottle is the fridge.

When serving, add 2-3 tablespoon of this lemonade (according to your taste) in a 250 ml cold water with some ice cubes, sprinkle pinch black salt and black pepper in it (optional), add few chopped fresh mint leaves. This can be served with or without food.

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