On these hot days, don’t you just love a tall glass of lemonade? Lemonade hits the spot right? And the best kind of lemonade is homemade lemonade!
And if you get bored easily, you can mix things up a bit with a couple of variations of lemonade.
I know making handmade lemonade takes some time, but it is so much better than any store bought lemonade I have ever had!
Homemade Lemonade
Ingredients
1 ½ Cups Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice (approximately 10 lemons)
1 Cup Sugar
5 Cups Water
Directions
1. Combine 1 Cup sugar and 1 Cup of water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until sugar is dissolved, approximately 4 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool completely.
2. While sugar water is boiling, squeeze 1 ½ cups of lemon juice. (Use a reamer or juicer.)
3. In a large pitcher, combine the cooled sugar syrup, lemon juice and 4 cups of cold water.
4. Taste for tartness. If too tart, add a cup of water. Remember when the lemonade is served over ice, the ice will dilute the lemonade.
Sparkling Strawberry Lemonade
Ingredients
1 ½ Cups Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice (approximately 10 lemons)
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Water
½ pound strawberries, plus extra for serving
3 Cups Club Soda
Directions
1. Follow steps 1-2 from the Home Made Lemonade from above.
2. In a blender, puree the strawberries with ¼ cup lemon juice. Strain into pitcher. Add remaining lemon juice and sugar syrup to pitcher, stir, then refrigerate until cool.
3. Just before serving, stir in the club soda. Serve over ice and garnish with strawberries.
Mint Lemonade Slush
Ingredients
1 ½ Cups Fresh Squeezed Lemon Lemonade (from recipe above) Juice (approximately 10 lemons)
1/4 Cup fresh mint leaves
2 Cups ice
Directions
Add all ingredients in a blender and blend until ice is crushed and then serve.
Printable Lemonade Recipes
Ingredients
- 1 ½ Cups Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice (approximately 10 lemons)
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 5 Cups Water
- 1 ½ Cups Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice (approximately 10 lemons)
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 Cup Water
- ½ pound strawberries, plus extra for serving
- 3 Cups Club Soda
- 1 ½ Cups Fresh Squeezed Lemon Lemonade (from recipe above) Juice (approximately 10 lemons)
- 1/4 Cup fresh mint leaves
- 2 Cups ice
Instructions
- 1. Combine 1 Cup sugar and 1 Cup of water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until sugar is dissolved, approximately 4 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool completely.
- 2. While sugar water is boiling, squeeze 1 ½ cups of lemon juice. (Use a reamer or juicer.)
- 3. In a large pitcher, combine the cooled sugar syrup, lemon juice and 4 cups of cold water.
- 4. Taste for tartness. If too tart, add a cup of water. Remember when the lemonade is served over ice, the ice will dilute the lemonade
- 1. Follow steps 1-2 from the Home Made Lemonade from above.
- 2. In a blender, puree the strawberries with ¼ cup lemon juice. Strain into pitcher. Add remaining lemon juice and sugar syrup to pitcher, stir, then refrigerate until cool.
- 3. Just before serving, stir in the club soda. Serve over ice and garnish with strawberries.
- Add all ingredients in a blender and blend until ice is crushed and then serve.
- 1 ½ Cups Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice (approximately 10 lemons)
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 5 Cups Water
- Combine 1 Cup sugar and 1 Cup of water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until sugar is dissolved, approximately 4 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool completely.
- While sugar water is boiling, squeeze 1 ½ cups of lemon juice. (Use a reamer or juicer.)
- In a large pitcher, combine the cooled sugar syrup, lemon juice and 4 cups of cold water.
- Taste for tartness. If too tart, add a cup of water. Remember when the lemonade is served over ice, the ice will dilute the lemonade.
- 1 ½ Cups Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice (approximately 10 lemons)
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 Cup Water
- ½ pound strawberries, plus extra for serving
- 3 Cups Club Soda
- Combine 1 Cup sugar and 1 Cup of water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until sugar is dissolved, approximately 4 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool completely.
- While sugar water is boiling, squeeze 1 ½ cups of lemon juice. (Use a reamer or juicer.)
- In a blender, puree the strawberries with ¼ cup lemon juice. Strain into pitcher. Add remaining lemon juice and sugar syrup to pitcher, stir, then refrigerate until cool.
- Just before serving, stir in the club soda. Serve over ice and garnish with strawberries.
- 1 ½ Cups Fresh Squeezed Lemon Lemonade (from recipe above) Juice (approximately 10 lemons)
- ¼ Cup fresh mint leaves
- 2 Cups ice
- Add all ingredients in a blender and blend until ice is crushed and then ser
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I love making homemade lemonade! It’s one of those things I used to do with my mom and siblings to kick off summer. Thanks for the recipes. I can’t wait to try the Strawberry Lemonade one.
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