Homemade lemonade (lemon drink recipe)

Hot summer, bright sun, creamy ice cream and cold lemonade... The three months that Russians look forward to every year can become even more pleasant if you refuse products with the addition of dyes and other chemicals and give preference to fruits and vegetables, ice cream without artificial additives and homemade lemonade.

In which country lemonade was first made is not known for certain. According to one version, they began to cook it in the hot East, according to another - in refined France. According to legend, the court chef of King Louis I mixed up barrels of wine and juice. Trying to somehow correct the situation and save his life, he decided on a bold experiment - he added mineral water to the juice.

The king was suddenly delighted with the new drink. When asked what it is, the cook replied: "Shorle, Your Majesty." Since then, Schorle has been called the “royal lemonade”.

In the 17th century in France, lemonade was made from water and lemon juice, or lemon tincture with added sugar. The aristocracy preferred lemonade, made on the basis of mineral waters from healing springs.

Almost at the same time, lemonade became popular in Italy, only here they began to add all kinds of herbs and fruits to it.

In Russia, lemonade, like the fashion for everything European, was brought from Holland by Peter I. And unlike most other innovations, Russians immediately liked the overseas drink.

But the first carbonated lemonades appeared only at the beginning of the 19th century, after the Englishman Joseph Priestley invented the saturator - an apparatus that saturates water with carbon dioxide. At the same time, they learned to isolate citric acid. And only in the 20th century began the industrial production of this drink.

With the start of mass production, lemonade lost its natural ingredients, acquired an unacceptable sugar content, and ended up in the top of the most harmful products.

However, do not give up lemonade. It is enough just to start making it yourself again. "MIR 24" remembered the traditions of different countries for making lemonade, and offers readers recipes for the most delicious varieties of this drink from around the world, which will not harm the figure and health.

Egyptian lemonade

For the past 700 years, the classic Egyptian lemonade has been made from lemon juice and sugar.

We will need:

1. large Egyptian lemon (can be replaced with lime)
2. two tea spoons of sugar
3. 300 ml chilled water

Cooking like this:

Cut off half of the lemon (in the case of lime, 1/3 is enough), cut it into four parts. Dip the lemon slices into a blender, add sugar and pour in water. Grind the ingredients for a minute. Strain the juice into a glass through a sieve. Egyptian lemonade is ready!

Indian lemonade

Compared to European lemonade, Indian lemonade can be called exotic. Here ginger is added to lemon juice. Sometimes saffron, cumin, and even garlic salt are used.

We will need:

1. 1/2 cup lemon juice
2. 1/3 cup maple syrup
3. 2/3 cup lemon juice
4. 8 glasses of water
5. 1/2 teaspoon ginger

Cooking like this:

You don't need a blender to make Indian Lemonade. Dip all the ingredients in a pitcher, fill with water and mix thoroughly for 2-3 minutes. Cool, pour into glasses and add ice cubes.

Italian lemonade

Italians prefer sweet lemonade to classic versions. Therefore, due to the presence of syrups, for those who carefully follow the figure, it is not recommended to abuse this kind of summer drink.

We will need:

1. 200 g fruit syrup
2. 100 g of any fruit or berries
3. 0.5 lemon zest
4. 800 g boiling water
5. sugar (to taste)

Cooking like this:

Mix fruit syrup with lemon zest. Pour boiling water over the mass and stir thoroughly.

Add fruit and sugar. Let the lemonade cool in the refrigerator. Italian drink is ready!

french lemonade

In fact, lemonade in this country is called a drink only from lemon juice, and it is similar to the Egyptian one. Other fruit drinks have their own names: pear - duchesse, pomegranate - grenadine, orange - orange. We decided to choose the original variety of French lemonade.

We will need:

1. 1/2 st. lemon juice
2. 1/2 lemon
3. 3 eggs
4. 2 glasses of sparkling water
5. 1/4 bag of vanilla sugar
6. 2 sprigs of mint

Cooking like this:

Beat two eggs in a blender and add lemon juice. After that, we lower the vanilla sugar and ice into the blender. Beat the mass for 2 minutes.

Strain the mixture, pour into glasses. Decorate with mint and lemon slices. Serve French lemonade on the table!

Greek lemonade

For Greeks, lemonade is like compote for Russians: a drink that is associated with childhood and vacations with grandmother.

We will need:

1. 5 lemons
2. glass of sugar

Cooking like this:

Wash the lemons and cut as thinly as possible. After that, put half the lemon slices in a deep bowl and add half a glass of sugar.

Add the remaining sugar to the squeezed lemons again and continue to squeeze with your hands. After we pour the resulting liquid into our bottle.

Completely fill the bottle with boiled water and cool in the refrigerator. Lemonade is ready!

american lemonade

Remember how in the movies kids sell lemonade on the street? It's really an American tradition. And fresh lemonade is very popular there.

We will need:

1. 3-4 lemons
2. 3/4 cup sugar
3. 4-6 glasses of water (to taste)

Cooking like this:

First you need to prepare the syrup. To do this, mix a glass of water with sugar, pour into a saucepan and bring to a boil on the stove. When the sugar is completely dissolved, remove the pan from the heat.

Pour the resulting lemon juice, syrup and 3-5 glasses of cold water into a pitcher, depending on how sour you would like the lemonade to be.

Then we cool the lemonade in the refrigerator, pour into glasses and decorate with lemon slices. Hollywood lemonade is ready!

mexican lemonade

Mexico is known not only for tequila, but also for lemonade. And if not every Mexican loves tequila, then everyone likes lemonade.

We will need:

1. 1 kiwi
2. 25 seedless grapes
3. 2 cups apple juice
4. 1 glass of ice

Cooking like this:

Wash the grapes and peel the kiwi. Put the fruits in a blender, pour in the apple juice and mix for 2 minutes.

In an empty glass, put half a glass of ice and pour in the resulting liquid. Enjoy!

Ekaterina Degtereva

A golden liquid gurgles softly in the glass, splashing small sparks and exuding a lemon scent. The hand of the guilty butler trembles, but on the face of the monarch there is a smile of approval...

Like many other discoveries, lemonade owes its appearance to chance. At least, that's what the legend tells about the error of the cupbearer Louis I, who gave his king lemon juice instead of wine, and to brighten up his oversight, diluted it with mineral water.

So it was, or otherwise, but lemonade appeared - and swept through the world in a refreshing whirlwind, appearing in every country in a new guise.

American homemade lemonade

In a pure mind, the word "lemonade" should be associated with lemons. In a mind corrupted by rows of colorful bottles on supermarket shelves, it can be associated with anything. However, at the dawn of its history, lemonade was specifically and exclusively a lemon drink made from lemon juice, sugar and water. In this form, it has remained popular to this day in America, where thirst is quenched with a couple of cents and a street lemonade stand. However, it is not necessary to fly to the homeland of cocktails and jazz to treat yourself to condo lemonade. Stock up on a bag of lemons - and enjoy it in your own kitchen - make lemonade at home.

The recipe for American lemonade is simple and affordable, both in terms of ingredients and relative to improvised means.

What you need:

• 1 glass of lemon juice, i.e. 3-5 lemons (depending on their degree of maturity and size),
• 200 g sugar
• 5 glasses of water

From the indicated amount of ingredients, 1.5 liters of drink are obtained.

The formula for homemade lemonade is simple: sugar syrup + juice + water. Mix everything and refrigerate.

1. Sugar syrup. Sugar for lemonade is not dissolved directly in water, but sugar syrup is prepared from it. To do this, in a saucepan you need to mix sugar with a glass of water (water from the total amount in the recipe) and slowly bring the syrup to a boil, stirring it regularly so that the sugar does not settle at the bottom.

2. Syrup + juice + water. Then, in a large decanter, combine chilled syrup, strained lemon juice and water, cool in the refrigerator.

Lemonade is served in glasses with ice, and for the sake of aesthetics it is decorated with lemon slices.

Homemade Lemonade - Turkish Mint Recipe

What you need

This lemonade is made from mint syrup, lemon juice and water.

For mint syrup:

• 1 cup tightly packed mint sprigs
• half a glass of sugar
• glass of water
• 2 lemons for zest.

Carefully remove the lemon zest with a grater. Keep in mind that the zest is the thin, yellow-colored top layer of the peel. If, removing it, capture pieces of whitish pulp, it will give a bitter aftertaste. And one more important point: wash the fruit very, very carefully before use. Lemons grown for export may be chemically treated and sometimes coated with a thin layer of wax. In order not to get zest with harmful additives, wash them with a brush under hot running water.

When finished with the preparations, mix the zest, sugar and water and bring this mixture to a boil. Remove from heat, add washed sprigs of mint, cover with a lid and leave the syrup to absorb essential oils for about an hour.

We prepare lemonade by mixing all the ingredients in the following proportions: water, mint syrup and ice in equal parts, lemon juice - ½ part. Lemonade in a carafe can be garnished with lemon wedges and a sprig of mint.

By the way, it is easy to replace mint with tarragon and get another expressive taste. Connoisseurs say that tarragon should be added a little less than mint, and instead of lemon, it is better to use lime zest with its special aromatic astringency. Why homemade lemonades are good: there are so many ingredients that you can experiment at least every day.

• Read also:

Turkish lemonade made with lime and mint at home.

Fruit and berry lemonades and other delights

Since we are talking specifically about lemonades, and not about soft drinks in general, the background taste in our case is always the task of lemon juice. If you want to dilute it with a fruity or berry flavor, replace some of the lemon juice with another. In the case of sweet berries, you need to replace a third of the lemon juice or half of it, but if the additional juice is sour, for example, from cranberries, we replace half of the juice or two thirds of it.

ON A NOTE. If the fruit is sweet, replace it with the juice of 1/2-1/3 lemon juice. If sour - feel free to replace up to 2/3.

Herbs and hard fruits, citrus zest are brewed together with sugar syrup or infused in it.

Pay attention to the proportions of the combination of lemon and berry juice in homemade lemonade.

As an illustration of what has been said, here are two delicious recipes for homemade lemonade.

Homemade mint ginger lemonade

Ingredients: mint-ginger sugar syrup, lemon juice, water.

We prepare it in the same way as Turkish mint lemonade, but add chopped ginger root (about 5 cm of rhizome) to the sugar syrup a few minutes before removing from heat, and take a little less mint than for Turkish lemonade. Ginger and mint complement each other very well, and the drink has a delicate pleasant taste and aroma.

raspberry lemonade recipe

What you need

• 180 g sugar
• 180 g fresh raspberries (or currants)
• 4 glasses of water
• glass of lemon juice

We wipe the raspberries through a sieve, filter the lemon juice, prepare the sugar syrup in the same way as in the previous recipes - from sugar and a glass of water. Mix everything in a jug, cool, serve with ice.

Homemade mint and ginger lemonade

Those delicious bubbles...

"But what about the gas?" - you ask, and you will be right: no herb-berries can give lemonade amazing stinging CO2 bubbles.

However, lovers of carbonated sweet drinks should not lose heart and think that their lot is store-bought lemonade stuffed with sweeteners, thickeners, dyes, flavor enhancers, and so on and so forth.

The simplest solution is to dilute the lemonade concentrate immediately before drinking soda water. More elegant, but also more expensive, is to carbonate homemade lemonade using a household siphon.
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If the thermometer outside the window grabs your head in horror, and you feel how your strength leaves you with each new mark, prepare yourself a decanter of lemonade with ice, and you will be surprised to find how the hellish heat turns into a source of pleasure.

What could be better than fresh, tasty and refreshing lemonade on a hot summer day? I bring to your attention a selection of very simple and affordable recipes for summer drinks based on lemonade.

In summer, the heat can be unbearable, but it is on such days that you can prepare and enjoy delicious soft drinks, which you probably would not drink in the cold season.

Instead of getting discouraged and complaining about the heat, as many do, let's remember what advantages summer has and why we will miss it very soon.

The heat also has benefits - you want to swim, be in the fresh air and drink a lot of delicious soft drinks. They have a special taste in such weather.

Secrets of making lemonade

Everyone can make lemonade, without exception, but there are some subtleties that will help make this drink better and healthier.

First, we have the choice of adding pure water or sparkling water to the lemonade. Of course, you can use gases for a party, but clean water is always better and healthier.

Then, since a lot of lemons are put in lemonade, it usually takes enough sugar to sweeten the drink. Of course, there is an alternative - and this is honey.

How to make classic homemade lemonade:

1. Cooking syrup. Pour 200 grams of sugar with 200 ml of water and put on a small fire. The syrup must be boiled and it is ready when all the sugar has completely dissolved. If you decide to sweeten lemonade not with sugar, but with natural honey, it is important to know that when heated, honey loses its beneficial properties. Therefore, we do this: boil some water in a kettle and let it cool, but not completely. In warm, boiled water, we already add 3-4 tablespoons of honey per 150 ml. Stir with a spoon until honey dissolves.
2. Squeezing juice. For 2 liters of lemonade you will need the juice of 2 lemons. Cut the lemons into large slices, squeeze the juice out of them with your hands. We throw a few squeezed pieces into a jug, they will give an additional zest flavor.
3. We combine the ingredients. Pour 2 liters of clean water or sparkling water into a jug, add lemon juice and lemon slices. Mix and add syrup to taste.
4. Improving Lemonade. Many people add fresh mint leaves to the finished drink for extra freshness. A spoonful of ground turmeric will make your lemonade prettier and healthier. Read more about the health benefits of turmeric here: Turmeric - useful properties.

Idea! Strawberry ice for lemonade
Imagine that you put not ordinary ice in your lemonade, but strawberry ice. Mash a few strawberries in puree with a fork, add water and pour into molds. If it’s not the season, it’s easy to buy 200 grams of frozen berries in the store, but it turns out so tasty and unusual!

Recipes for simple but delicious lemonades

If we already know how the classic version of this wonderful drink is prepared, but then it’s still easier. We take this recipe as a basis and add the rest of the ingredients.

• Lemonade with orange and mint

Made this recipe today. It turns out very tasty and fresh. For 2 liters of drink you will need 1 lemon, 1 orange, 2 sprigs of mint and honey syrup.

It is prepared in the same way as the classic recipe. Of course, it is better to use honey, but with sugar it will also turn out tasty and fresh.

• peach lemonade

Now there are many delicious peaches in stores and markets, but they can also be used to make a refreshing drink. Ingredients: 2 liters of water, 1 lemon, 2 large peaches, syrup.

Cut the lemon into slices and squeeze out the juice. Put a couple of squeezed slices into a jug. Peaches also cut into large slices, and squeeze them a little with your hands and lower everything into a jug. Pour juice and fruit with water and add syrup to taste. It is advisable to leave the drink in the refrigerator for an hour to cool and infuse.

If you want a richer peach flavor, it is recommended to boil them in syrup for 5 minutes, then add to lemonade.

• lime and strawberry and mint

This drink can be called a strawberry mojito. This recipe is popular with many cafes and clubs that offer non-alcoholic cocktails.

You will need: 1.5 liters of water, syrup, juice of 2 limes, 200 grams of fresh or frozen strawberries, 2 sprigs of fresh mint. Strawberries are kneaded a little so that she gives the juice, then just mix all the ingredients. The drink is very tasty and refreshing.

• tropical lemonade

Ingredients: juice of 2 lemons, 2 liters of water, a glass of pineapple juice, a glass of apricot nectar, syrup, lemon wedges for decoration.

• Lemonade with watermelon

Ingredients: juice of 1 lemon, 2 cups of chopped watermelon pulp, syrup.

Preparing is just as easy as the rest of the recipes. The ingredients just need to be mixed, allowed to cool and served with ice cubes.

• Lemonade with kiwi

Ingredients: 1 small lime, kiwi - 6 pieces, syrup. We make puree from kiwi using a blender. We combine all the ingredients, pour clean or sparkling water, add syrup to taste and the lemonade is ready.

• Strawberry lemonade with melon

Lemonade is very unusual, it tastes summery and refreshing. Ingredients: juice of one lemon, a glass of melon cut into small cubes and syrup. We make puree from melon. To do this, use a blender or a fork if the berry is soft enough. Pour 2 liters of water into a jug, add lemon juice, melon puree, mix, then add syrup to taste.

• Berry lemonade

Ingredients: juice of 2 lemons, 200 grams of any fresh or frozen berries, a spoonful of ginger powder, ice cubes. The berries need to be crushed, then the juice is separated from the seeds. Next, just mix all the ingredients, and add syrup to taste.

• ginger lemonade

Favorite lemonade of those who watch their figure and like to add spicy notes to their drinks. For cooking, you need the juice of one lemon, 2 tablespoons of freshly chopped ginger, a spoonful of honey and a liter of water. Pour a glass of water into a small saucepan and add ginger. Bring to a boil and cook for about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool, then strain and discard the rest of the ginger. Add honey to ginger water and mix until completely dissolved. It remains only to mix the resulting syrup with the rest of the ingredients and the drink is ready.

It is unlikely that in our time there are people who have not tried lemonade. It is usually sold in a store or on tap. But you can make it yourself and today I will tell you how to make lemonade at home in the easiest way.

Lemonade is a lemon drink. The name has different meanings in different countries.

For example, in the United States, lemonade is usually made from lemon juice, water, and sugar. In most cases, this is a drink prepared at home. But in England, the production of lemonade is commercialized, it is a sweet carbonated soft drink with lemon flavor. Traditionally, lemonade is a non-alcoholic drink, but recently so-called “strong lemonade” with the addition of alcohol has begun to appear in different countries.

Total cooking time - 40 minutes
Active cooking time - 10 minutes
Calories per 100 gr - 26 kcal
Servings Per 12

Lemonade is also prepared in India and Pakistan, adding salt, ginger juice, saffron and even garlic and cumin to it. And in the Middle East, rose water is traditionally added to lemonade.

How to make lemonade

Ingredients:

Sugar - 1 stack.(or to taste)
Water - 1 stack.
Lemon juice - 1 cup(freshly squeezed, from about 5 lemons)
Sparkling water– 2 l(like Bon Aqua or Aqua Minerale, the amount of water to taste, still water can also be used)
Ice- to submit
Lemon- for serving (slices)

Cooking:

Combine sugar and water in a saucepan. Heat, stirring, over low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat and let cool completely.

Add lemon juice. You can filter if you don't want lemon pulp in your lemonade. This is a lemonade preparation. It can be made ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator until needed.

And just before serving, dilute the syrup with sparkling water. Do this gradually and taste it to get exactly the concentration of the drink that you like. Serve lemonade over ice, garnished with a slice of lemon.

Enjoy your meal!

Text and photo of lemonade preparation: Tatyana Vorona

In the summer, when it gets insanely hot outside, you just want to drink something refreshing. You should not buy harmful carbonated drinks, it is better to prepare lemonade at home.

This lemonade recipe is very easy to make. From the indicated amount of ingredients, 4 liters of drink will be obtained.

Required ingredients:

• two liters of water;
• five glasses of sugar;
• a little more than a liter of fresh lemon juice;
• ice, lemon, mint - for serving.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare a large saucepan, put sugar, water and lemon juice in it.
2. Heat over low heat and cook for about 15 minutes. Sugar should be completely dissolved. After that, remove from the stove and let the mixture cool.
3. Pour the lemonade into a glass dish and refrigerate to chill.
4. Before serving, add ice cubes, mint pieces and lemon slices to the drink.

orange recipe

Homemade lemonade can be made from juicy oranges. It turns out bright and will surely appeal to children.

Required ingredients:

• liter of mineral water with gas;
• four oranges;
• 100 grams of sugar.

Cooking process:

1. We wash the fruits well, remove the skin from them, leaving only the pulp.
2. Place orange slices with sugar in a blender and beat until a homogeneous mixture is formed.
3. Pour into a large container, add the indicated amount of mineral water and put the lemonade in the refrigerator. Serve when it has completely cooled down.

Cooking with lemon

If you want to get real lemonade, the way it was before, then we make it from lemon.

Required ingredients:

• a glass of sugar;
• six lemons;
• six glasses of cold clean water.

Cooking process:

1. First you need to carefully squeeze the juice from the lemons. It is best to do this with a juicer, but if there is no device, then first press the lemon to the table with the palm of your hand, roll it on the surface for a while, then cut and extract the juice.
2. Prepare a four-liter container, such as a jug. Place the resulting juice, the indicated amount of sugar and water there.
3. Stir the drink thoroughly, taste, add more water if necessary. Refrigerate before serving to chill the drink.

Fancy ginger lemonade

It would seem that this ingredient is completely unsuitable for a drink, because most often it is used for other dishes. In fact, ginger lemonade is very good at quenching thirst in hot weather.

Required ingredients:

• two lemons;
• 200 grams of ginger root;
• two large spoons of sugar;
• three liters of clean water;
• four spoons of honey.

Cooking process:

1. The root is peeled, washed and ground on a fine grater.
2. Pour a liter of water into the pan, add chopped ginger there.
3. We clean the lemons, finely chop the skin and also put them in a saucepan. Squeeze the juice from the pulp in any convenient way and set it aside.
4. Pour sugar to the lemon and ginger, mix and bring the mass to a boil.
5. As soon as the process has begun, immediately remove from heat, filter and let cool.
6. Pour in lemon juice, honey, mix and dilute with the remaining batch of water.
7. Cool well and serve.

Cucumber drink

Required ingredients:

• two lemons;
• 0.4 kg of cucumbers;
• a glass of sugar;
• one and a half liters of water and another glass for syrup;
• mint to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Pour all the indicated water into the pan, bring it to a boil. We take the glass for the syrup, and let the rest cool.
2. We combine a glass of water with sugar, bring to a boil, continue to cook for about two minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from fire and cool.
3. Cucumbers are cut, sent to a blender along with mint leaves and interrupted into a homogeneous mixture, strain it.
4. Squeeze the juice from the lemons thoroughly, mix with water, syrup and cucumber mass. Refrigerate and serve.

How to make strawberries

Required ingredients:

• half a liter of sugar syrup;
• six lemons;
• two and a half liters of water;
• 500 grams of strawberries.

Cooking process:

1. We wash the lemons, squeeze the juice out of them well, and finely chop the skin.
2. Pour the juice, sugar syrup into the water, put the zest, mix well.
3. Add strawberries to this mixture, which we first mash with a fork in mashed potatoes.
4. Strain the drink and refrigerate. Serve garnished with whole berries, mint leaves or lemon balm.

pear lemonade

Pear lemonade is a real thirst quencher. For a drink, take only ripe fruits.

Required ingredients:

• one liter of water;
• 200 grams of pears;
• four tablespoons of sugar;
• one lemon.

Cooking process:

1. We wash the pears well, remove the skin from them, cut them in half, cut out the hard core and bones, chop into small cubes.
2. We put them in a blender, pour only 200 milliliters of cold water and interrupt until a homogeneous consistency.
3. Make syrup from the rest of the water. Add sugar to it, bring to a boil and cook until it is completely dissolved, then cool.
4. Mix pear puree, syrup, lemon juice and a few sliced ​​\u200b\u200bit slices. Place in the refrigerator and serve when the drink is cold.

Watermelon refreshing drink

Required ingredients:

• a liter of cool sparkling water;
• two lemons;
• kilogram of watermelon pulp;
• three tablespoons of sugar or to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Be sure to clean the pulp of the watermelon, there should not be any seeds.
2. Rinse the lemons and squeeze the juice out of them very carefully, it is best to use a juicer for this.
3. Place watermelon pulp, lemon juice and sugar in a blender, beat for a couple of minutes. Putting sugar is optional, if the watermelon is already very sweet, look to your liking.
4. Pour sparkling water into the resulting mass, turn on the blender again. You should get a fairly liquid drink.
5. Chill lemonade, serve with ice cubes, fresh mint leaves or fragrant catnip.