Homemade lemonade

Classic homemade lemonade consists of lemon juice, water (often carbonated) and sugar. Sometimes it is additionally added mint. The preparation of homemade lemonade in this case does not present any difficulties: you just need to mix the ingredients, picking up the proportions to your taste, and add ice to the drink.

The taste of homemade lemonade can be diversified by adding other fruits and berries to it. You can at least every day to prepare new variations of this soft drink, choosing additional ingredients depending on the month: in June you can take strawberries, in August - watermelon, etc.

Classic homemade lemonade

Let's begin all the same with development of the classical recipe of a house lemonade without extraneous ingredients. We will need such products:

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  2 medium lemon
• 
  200 g of sugar

Mine lemons, cut into thin slices,mix with sugar and insist 1-2 hours. Then pour lemons with sugar a glass of boiling water. When the mixture cools down, filter, dispense the syrup into glasses and to taste we dilute with chilled boiled water or soda. If desired, add ice to the glasses.

Homemade lemonade with oranges

Where are the lemons - there are oranges and other citrus fruits. To prepare homemade lemonade with orange flavor, we will need the following ingredients:

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  peel of 8 oranges
• 
  4 lemons
• 
  2 kg of granulated sugar

Orange peel pour boiling water andwe leave to infuse for a day. Then take the crusts out of the water and let them through the meat grinder. We bring the water to a boil, fill it with twisted crusts and insist another 24 hours. The resulting liquid is filtered, add sugar to it, bring it to the boil and add the juice and pulp of four lemons. The resulting syrup is diluted with chilled carbonated water to taste.

Strawberry lemonade

Homemade lemonade with the addition of strawberries has a very pleasant taste. Prepare it very easily, for this we take:

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  strawberry - 500 g
• 
  lemon juice - 185 ml
• 
  powdered sugar - 110 g
• 
  salt

Strawberry, cleanse from the tails. All the ingredients are put in a blender and beat until the sugar completely dissolves. Add the water and whisk again. Ready-made lemonade is cooled and served to the table. If you plan to store lemonade in the refrigerator, pour it into glass bottles.

Watermelon lemonade

In late summer and early autumn, do not miss the opportunity to pamper yourself with a refreshing watermelon lemonade. To make homemade lemonade with watermelon, we will take:

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  pulp of watermelon - 800 g
• 
  Freshly squeezed lemon juice - 0.5 tbsp.
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  sugar - 0.5 tbsp.

Sugar is poured into half a glass of water and inWe bring the small saucepan to a boil, stirring constantly, until the sugar completely dissolves. Leave the syrup until completely cool. Cut the chopped pulp of watermelon into a blender and grind it to homogeneity. The resulting mass is filtered. Syrup diluted with three glasses of cold water and lemon juice, mix thoroughly. Glasses are filled with ice, add watermelon juice, lemonade and gently mix. The ratio of watermelon juice and lemonade is determined according to your taste.

Pineapple lemonade

Many people like the pleasant taste and aroma of pineapple, and this fruit has a lot of useful properties. So why not make homemade lemonade with pineapple? For this we take:

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  juice of two lemons
• 
  pineapple juice - 0.5 tbsp.
• 
  egg whites - 2 pcs.

Whisk egg whites with lemon and pineapplejuice. The mixture should foam well. Filter the mixture and add a glass of soda water and finely chopped ice into it. We pour lemonade on the glasses and serve it to the table.

Bon Appetit!