Steven offered Ronaldo fresh-squeezed lemonade as a condition of participating in a groundbreaking interview in "Rising Tides, Crashing Skies"! Sounds like an excuse for a recipe to me!
Making fresh-squeezed lemonade is not as easy as squeezing some lemons and calling it a day. After all, lemons are sour! Let me teach you! I'm Floridian!
I grew up with five fruit trees in my back yard. One grapefruit tree, three orange trees, and...you guessed it, one lemon tree! And what shocks me about store-bought lemons is how tiny and yellow they are. Lemons were the size of oranges where I'm from. (Oranges were the size of grapefruits. Grapefruits were the size of...you don't wanna know what!)
For this recipe, you need 6 to 8 medium lemons, 2 cups of water, and 2 cups of sugar. You also need a saucepan, a pitcher, a knife, and a juicer.
First, use 2 cups of water and 2 cups of sugar to make simple syrup. Pour the sugar and water into a saucepan.
Bring it to a simmer on high.
Let simmer on medium while stirring until the sugar is dissolved and the water is clear.
Take off the heat and let cool.
Lemons should be room temperature when you juice! Cut a lemon in half.
Use a juicer to squeeze the lemon's juice into the attached receptacle.
Twist it thoroughly to get all the juice and repeat with the other half.
The seeds and pulp will largely be caught by the strainer.
You don't get that much juice from little lemons. Aim for about 1.5 cups.
Strain into the measuring cup.
For real. Strain it. Or this will be in your drink.
Keep juicing until you get your desired amount of juice.
Pour in the serving pitcher.
Pour in the cooled simple syrup.
Stir!
Add at least 4 more cups of water.
Taste it and see if it needs more diluting. When it fits your desired level of sweetness, pour into glasses.
Serve to friends while they expose your family and try to run you out of town! You know, like ya do!
If you want to look fancy, you can always serve this in a glass pitcher with picturesque ice and slices of lemon added in, or you can add lemon slices to the edges of glasses. Steven didn't, though, so neither did I.
And now you can say a real Floridian taught you to make lemonade!
Too bad there's no Florida in SU.
Ronaldo, be cooler next time when someone who fuels most of your bcidents just wants to defend Beach City and hydrate his neighbors :rage:
Comments (4)
sounds delicious, wish I could make some