Homemade Lemonade

My favorite recipe for Lemonade:

Make this at night to enjoy the next day

4 lemons (organic of course) - scrubbed clean
1 cup Sugar
64 oz filtered Water

(an extra lemon for slices to garnish would make a nice touch)

1. Peel the outer zest from the lemons into strips (or a long coil if you can manage that). Place the peel and sugar in an airtight container - shake it to get the sugar all infused with the lemon peels - and set aside for about an hour or more.

2. Heat the water and bring it to a boil.

3. Remove from heat, add the sugar/lemon peel mixture and stir until the sugar dissolves. The oils released from the lemon zest will give the lemonade a great fragrance and wonderful flavor... the longer you leave the zest in, the stronger the flavor... so don't leave them in too long - just about a minute or 2

4. While the Lemon-infused Sugar water cools, Juice the 4 lemons and then add to the water.

Pop it into the fridge to cool over-night

The next day - you'll have a great lemonade! Garnish with lemon slices if desired.

For fun... If you're overloaded on strawberries (they're so cheap now at the farmer's markets!) You can make a puree of them and freeze the puree in ice cube trays. So when you're prepared to serve the lemonade - pour it over the frozen fruity cubes for a strawberry (or raspberry) lemonade... you can do this with any red fruit juice as well...