When life gives you lemons.........

Here's my perfect recipe for home-made lemonade; I developed it in my French kitchen (oooh la la!) last week and it was lovely to fill the room with a citrussy scent.  It contains a lot of sugar but much less than those in the shops.  A recent survey by Action on Sugar showed Sainsbury's cloudy lemonade made the top ten list of soft drinks containing the highest amount of sugar, packing in 11 teaspoons of sugar per 330 mL.  My recipe uses less sugar in 750 mL and you could still use less if you prefer.

Ingredients

2 large juicy lemons

10 teaspoons sugar or less

approx. 750 mL water

That's it!

Heat a couple of cups of water (doesn't matter exactly, just less than the total amount your final container can hold) in a saucepan with the sugar and the lemon zest (I used a potato peeler to zest the lemons).
Bubble gently until the sugar is dissolved, then leave to cool.

Juice the lemons and add the juice to your container; put it in the fridge while your sugar/zest mixture is cooling.

Strain the cooled mixture through a sieve, add to the juice and top up to 750 mL with water. Keep in the fridge.

Very refreshing!

Thank you to M. Koen Caremans-Somers for the kind gift of the "top hat" for my bottle!