Ingredients
- Sugar (to taste)
- 1 1/2 cup lemon juice
- a quart of strawberries - I used fresh. Pureed.
- 6 cups of purified water
While a very simple recipe, first thing's first, campers. Prep work!
We hull the strawberries; the recipe called for either frozen or fresh, and I used the latter. I cut off the cups of the strawberries and put them aside in a bowl.
Then I took several lemons and began squeezing the juice out manually into a cup. I ended up going through them all and still not having enough, so I ran out to the store quickly to get more bottled lemon juice.
Then I took out the blender and pureed the strawberries until it was something resembling a Jamba Juice concoction.
By this time I put in the lemon juice through cheesecloth to get rid of the excess pulp and seeds and then added it to the pitcher with my six cups of purified water.
Once I got that settled, I took out the sugar from the pantry, put it aside, and then started to add the strawberry puree, saving about 1/4th in the blender. I stirred, tasted how sour it was (because I had added some lemon juice to the blender to encourage the puree-ing process) and began to add my sugar 1/4th of a cup at a time until I ended up at 2 1/2 cups (wow.)
Then I put in the rest of the strawberry puree, mixed it really well, and served. Since most of the ingredients were cold out of the fridge, it remained refreshing for summer weather.
This recipe was so delicious, mainly in part to the amount of sugar I put in. That's the great part about it - one can adjust how sweet or tart the recipe can turn out. I'm thinking next time I might puree some pineapple chunks in their own juices and add that in; that would make a super citrus vitamin C drink.
Very, very easy recipe to follow at home. Definitely worth five stars! I would totally make this again.And what does the boyfriend think?
Pucker those lips, darlin' and chug chug chug!
....Another satisfied customer! BOO-YAH!
His words exactly*: "You are brilliant and I'm gonna make babies with you someday because of this experience."
Yeah, I know, babe. Try not to make a scene over my awesome awesomeness. *rubs fingernails against collar of shirt* I can't help it if I substantially ROCK at making stuff.
His response was to guzzle more strawberry-lemonade.
*=He didn't actually state this outright.
Found via CDKitchen (Original Recipe: Fresh Strawberry Lemonade.)
