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Lemon Juice

Fresh Squeezed Lemonade

January 30, 2014 by mamakay 1 Comment

 

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We love REAL lemonade! No powder substitute for me. Please give me the real stuff! And if you are looking for an alternative to gatorade just add a little salt and some calcium powder and you can be refreshed with electrolytes without any corn syrup or other nasty chemicals!

To make fresh lemonade you start by making a simple syrup. Basically dissolve equals parts of sugar and water. We do this one of two ways. You can put the sugar in a pan with the water on medium heat and stir until the sugar is dissolved or put the sugar in the bottom of your glass jar or pitcher and add hot water to it whisking it until it dissolves.

Then add your lemon juice and dilute with water to your desired tastes.

We like a ratio of 1 part sugar, 1 part water, 1 part lemon juice and then dilute with 4 parts water.

Homemade Lemonade

Makes 1 gallon

2 cups sugar

2 cups water

2 cups fresh squeezed lemon juice

8 cups water

Dissolve 2 cups of sugar with 2 cups of water.

Add lemon juice and mix well.

Dilute with water until you achieve your perfect balance.

Serve and Enjoy!

 

MamaKay

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Processing Lemons: Finding Some Sunshine in January!

January 27, 2014 by mamakay Leave a Comment

 

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When we lived in Arizona we had a wonderful lemon tree in our backyard as did my husband’ parents. Although I absolutely love living in Montana I do miss our lemons! Thankfully my in-laws are so generous that every year they send us lemons in a flat rate box! And they often juice several lemons and freeze it to bring when they come up in the summer.

This year my 4 year old son was my big helper when we got our lovely box of sunshine!

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We love our juicer (and we have used a lot of different ones). This one gets the most juice out of any manual juicer I have used. They have them at Amazon and we have found a couple at thrift stores.

 

From our box of lemons we were able to squeeze a little over a quart of juice. Lemon juice goes a long ways! We were able to make a gallon of lemonade, a pint of lemon curd, a lemon coconut impossible pie, a batch of lemon coconut power balls and had a little more left over besides.

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I also used my microplaner to grate the zest from the lemons and got about a cup of zest. I will freeze that and be able to add some lemony goodness to foods throughout the year.


I will be posting our lemony recipes through out the week. What is your favorite lemon dish?

MamaKay

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