Homemade Lemonade
By Chelsea SugarPage views: 158269A refreshing summer drink - great for fundraisers and for using up lemons!
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37 reviews
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Difficulty Easy
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Prep time 10 mins
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Cooking time 10 mins
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Serves
36
6 lemons, scrubbed in cold water
1.5kg Chelsea White Sugar
50g (1/2 packet) citric acid
3 litres water
Peel the rind off 2 lemons, taking care to get just the outer skin, no white pith (use a potato peeler).
Place the peel and 2 cups of the sugar in a food processor and run the processor until the rind is really ground up and the sugar is yellow and oily looking. Tip into a large saucepan.
Squeeze all 6 lemons and strain off to remove any pips. Mix the juice with the lemon sugar mixture in the saucepan and add the remaining sugar and the citric acid. Add the 3 litres of water and cook over a medium heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves.
Cool, pour into clean bottles and store in the fridge.
To serve, dilute with water – 1 part cordial to 3 or 4 parts water. To make fizzy lemonade, dilute with sparkling mineral water or soda water. For a party, try pink lemonade by adding a few drops of pink food colouring to the cordial. Dress up the glasses with fancy straws, ice cubes, slices of fruit and cocktail umbrellas or little plastic toys.
Makes 3 litres of concentrated cordial.
Great recipe all my family love it. Lovely with lots of ice and instead of water use Soda Water to dilute can also use more lemon juice and less sugar
Loved it. Used it in my lemonade stall and did shout out to this recipe. But the only thing you could improve on is using house hold ingredients! I recommend this.
We used fresh lemons from our own tree (sweeter lemons that what you buy) and used 1/3 of the sugar because of the sweetness of our lemons. It turned out well but will use less sugar next time. It makes a difference having your own tree as the lemons are much sweeter than what you buy in the stores.
Super easy, delicious and refreshing! Only used 1kh of sugar and was fine. Cant wait to have it in summer!
I have made this recipe many times. My family love it ! Its delicious and very refreshing.
I make the concentrate up and then freeze in 100ml lots so that in the Summer time, I just grab a plastic bag with just the right amount of concentrate in it and just add to a jug 300mls of water. It dissolves and you have a lovely chilled drink.
Awesome! My niece & nephew were disappointed at not being able to have traditional lemonade at the recent Sydney Easter Show so I went searching for a recipe. This turned out to be better tasting!! Prep time was a little longer & I think I could reduce the amount of sugar a little next time. Think I need to plant a lemon tree!
This lemonade was absolutely YUMMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was a good lemonade recipe however it has way too much sugar! I halved the recipe to make 1.5 litres and used just the initial 2 cups of sugar and an extra lemon (4). I like my lemon drinks a bit tart but this was certainly sweet enough - 1.5kgs of sugar in 3 litres of cordial is far too much in my opinion.
"Place the pot on a medium element and add the 3 litres of water, stirring until the sugar dissolves.
Cool and pour into clean bottles and store in the fridge. "
The sugar dissolves without heating. Is there something missing? Boil? Simmer? Heat? Also at the top it says "Cooking Time: n/a"
Cheers
Peter
CHELSEA: Thanks for the feedback, Peter. We have updated the method to make it easier to follow.
Awesome idea. I tried this for my family and it was great.
The ingredients and process are easy, and I had little umbrellas with straws in mine. Also I added red food colouring - I told my young boys it was blood juice! They absolutely loved it!
Please try this at home
Thanks :-)
Everybody loves this and wants to know how to make it. I get wine bottles from all our neighbours recycling bins and use those to bottle it and give away!
Wonderful cool and refrshing. Everyone loves this. It does use a LOT of sugar though.. I am now on the hunt for lemons.. :)
I cut the sugar back to 1kg and it still tastes great. Will try even less next time. This is the nicest and easiest lemonade that I have ever made.
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