Delicious Homemade Pink Lemonade

I used to think that homemade lemonade took forever to make. Since it has been spring here in Florida basically all winter, we decided to make some lemonade the other day. It only took about 15 minutes and it is so delicious!

What you need:

About 5 lemons (1 cup of lemon juice)
7 and 1/3 cups of water
1 and 1/4 cups of sugar
2 tablespoons of grenadine (optional to make it pink)

What you do:

1. Dissolve the sugar in one cup of warm/hot water. This makes sure that the sugar dissolves completely and there aren’t any grains left. Put this syrup in the refrigerator and let it cool.

2. Squeeze 1 cup of lemon juice. Leave in the pulp, but remove the seeds. Roll the lemons against the counter before you cut them and they will juice more easily. You do not need a special juicer machine or anything.

3. In a large container, mix 6 and 1/3 cups of (cold) water, the syrup mixture, 1 cup of lemon juice, and 2 tablespoons of grenadine.

Presentation:

I like to serve lemonade in old frappucino glass bottles. I wrapped some yarn around the glass and added a lemon wedge. After I poured the lemonade into the glass, I added a drop of grenadine and did NOT stir it to make it a darker shade of pink at the bottom.

And apparently, Lyla loves lemons.