Lemonade, which came to us from France, is a drink whose main ingredient is lemon juice or tincture from it. Over time, cooks began to use other components for the preparation of this drink, for example, various berry juices, extracts, and more. Before you make lemonade, you must remember that it is carbonated and without gas. At home, they often prepare a non-carbonated refreshing drink that perfectly tones on a summer day. And to enhance its refreshing properties, it is poured into tall glasses, in which ice cubes are first placed.
Many people wonder how to make lemonade at home. Here you can use the classic recipe for its preparation. To do this, take the zest of lemon, previously infused with alcohol, water, turmeric, sugar and saffron. All ingredients are mixed and put in a cold place for ten hours. The finished drink is poured into glasses, adding crushed ice.
Instead of sugar, you can use sweet syrup mixed with lemon juice, and instead of ordinary water - mineral or sparkling water. Mint or ginger are often added here.
Let's look at a few examples of how to make lemonade.
1. Homemade lemonade.
Ingredients: three lemons, one orange, four tablespoons of sugar, seven hundred grams of hot water.
Citrus fruits need to be washed and peeled. Put the zest in a bowl, add freshly squeezed fruit juice , sugar and water. Mix well and leave for ten hours in a cold place. Over time, add one tablespoon of sugar to the drink, strain it through cheesecloth and cool. Serve to the table, previously diluted with soda.
2. How to make lemonade with mint and ginger.
Ingredients: six lemons, one lime, one glass of sugar, one liter of water, an incomplete spoon of ginger, mint.
Three lemons need to be washed, peeled and chopped zest, in which juice, sugar and ginger, one hundred grams of water are added, everything is mixed and left in a cold place for eight hours.
Lime juice, mint, fifty grams of sugar are mixed in a bowl, then filtered and added to lemonade. Before serving, dilute with water.
3. How to make lemonade in Hungarian.
Ingredients (per serving): seven cherries, one spoonful of powdered sugar, fifty grams of ice cream, one hundred grams of soda. In glasses, the edges of which are sprinkled with powder, pitted cherries are placed, on top of them - ice cream, everything is poured with sparkling water.
4. Mint lemonade.
Ingredients: three tablespoons of chopped mint leaves, juice and zest of two lemons, three tablespoons of sugar, six glasses of finished lemonade, pieces of ice, slices of lemon.
Mint leaves are placed in a large glass. The zest of lemon is boiled for five minutes in two glasses of water, filtered and juice and sugar are added to the liquid. Mint is poured over it and left for one hour in a cold place. Over time, the drink is mixed with ready-made lemonade and poured into glasses with ice, decorated with lemon slices and a sprig of mint.
5. How to make "Sunny" lemonade
Ingredients: five lemons, limes and oranges, three liters of water, two glasses of sugar, crushed ice.
Of all citrus fruits, it is necessary to squeeze the juice, and the pulp - thinly cut. Sugar and water are added to the juice and mixed. Ice and sliced fruits are put in glasses and poured with lemonade.
Thus, lemonade is an excellent tonic drink that is liked by both children and adults. In addition to excellent taste, it has many useful properties, since fresh fruits contain a large amount of vitamins, minerals, nitric acids, copper, volatile, essential oils and other things. Such a drink helps to cure diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, atherosclerosis, hypertension, scurvy, vitamin deficiency, and the normalization of metabolic processes in the body. The main thing is that it should be made from natural products.