There’s nothing like fresh lemonade, made with fresh-squeezed lemons and simple syrup. But you can’t keep lemons in the fridge for weeks at a time. That doesn’t mean you should go with powdered instant lemonade or some nasty pre-made stuff loaded with corn syrup.
If your grocery store has a foreign/imported foods section, look for fruit syrups. They’re like a simple syrup but made with fruit instead of water. Prepared foods aren’t all evil. You just have to read the labels and, apparently, buy imports.
At first glance this looks like something you might find in the wine or liquor section.
But as you get closer you notice it’s not printed in English.
Except for the ingredients and nutrition label stuck on the back. I’ve highlighted the key part:
I love products with only two ingredients.
So add a bag of ice and a pitcher and you’re ready to go.
Fill the pitcher with ice.
Fill with water.
Add about a half-cup of syrup, mixing constantly.
Taste, and add more syrup if you need it. And that’s it.
This also makes a killer frozen drink. Other flavors include cherry, blueberry, orange, blackberry and more. If you see them, give them a try.
Want more like this? For more recipes like this, that you can hold right in your hands, and write on, take notes, tear pages out if you want (Gosh, you're tough on books, aren't you?) you might be interested in How To Cook Like Your Grandmother, 2nd edition, Illustrated. Or to learn your way around the kitchen, check out Starting From Scratch: The Owner's Manual for Your Kitchen.
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why can’t you keep lemons in the fridge weeks at a time? Surely their life span was what made them so attractive to the early seafarers. One things for sure, if you buy them at a supermarket they’ll be kept for weeks at a time.
Now that is a rad idea. Only two problems: 1) I doubt I could find such a product at my supermarket in the boonies, and 2) I have about 4 gallons of mulberry juice in my fridge right now and will not be drinking anything else for, oh, about a year. My tongue is permanently stained purple.
Grocer, maybe it’s just my fridge that can’t keep them for weeks at a time. It’s probably as old as I am, and has a habit of turning vegetables into blocks of ice in the crisper. And don’t tell me to turn the temperature down, then I get slimy puddles of rotten berries. Nothing in between. It kind of forces me to shop fresh, which isn’t such a bad thing.
Kristin, my daughters would love to have purple tongues. I think you’ve got a product idea on your hands.
I’ve usually found citrus to last longer out of the fridge. My mum’s always bought a bunch, then only refrigerated a few fruits at a time. They seem to mold more easily if kept in the fridge. *shrug*
That is much easier than squeezing lemons. But I have never seen limona!!!
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