Lemonade

There's a Santa Ana wind blowing, and it's hot – just the time for a cool drink of lemonade. There were enough ripe on the tree in our back yard that I could make some.

This is my own recipe, that I put together after researching how to make lemonade on the Web. Some people might think it's too tart; but I find it just right. (The fix for tartness is to make it with more sugar.)

Lemonade

Juice from 6 lemons (about 1 cup)
6 cups water

Grated peel from one lemon
4 Tbsb (1/4 cup) sugar
1 cup water

Dissolve the sugar in the single cup of water in a small saucepan. Add the grated lemon peel. Put the saucepan on high heat and allow it to come to a boil. Boil for two minutes. Remove from heat.

Squeeze the juice from the six lemons. Pour it through a strainer into a pitcher. Add the 6 cups water to the pitcher and stir briefly.

Pour the lemon peel syrup through the strainer into the pitcher. Discard the contents of the strainer.

Stir the pitcher thoroughly. The lemonade can now be served immediately over ice, or refrigerated to be served chilled later.

Makes approximately 2 quarts.