Name: Homemade Lemonade Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 9
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup simple syrup ($0.34); 5 cups cold water ($0.00); 2 lbs fresh lemons (3 cups juice, $5.96); pinch of salt ($0.01)

Homemade Lemonade Recipe

This easy Homemade Lemonade recipe uses fresh lemon juice, homemade simple syrup, and water for a perfectly balanced, sweet-tart batch of lemonade!

15 min total 15 min prep 9 130 cal

Ingredients

9 serv.

1 cup simple syrup ($0.34)
5 cups cold water ($0.00)
2 lbs fresh lemons (3 cups juice, $5.96)
pinch of salt ($0.01)

Instructions

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1 Gather your ingredients.
2 Peel 1 lemon with a vegetable peeler and reserve the peels.
3 Make our homemade simple syrup recipe, adding the peels from 1 lemon during the cooking process.
4 Once sugar has dissolved, let the lemon simple syrup cool slightly until warm.
5 Juice all but 2 lemons, cutting those 2 into wheels.
6 Pour warm simple syrup over the sliced lemons in a large carafe or punch bowl.
7 Then, add lemon juice.
8 Then, add cold water.
9 Add a pinch of salt and stir to combine. Serve over ice and enjoy!