{"id":812,"date":"2013-06-21T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T14:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2013-06-21T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T14:33:18","slug":"adults-like-lemonade-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/adults-like-lemonade-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Adults like lemonade too"},"content":{"rendered":"

I get creative about drink making generally around winter holidays and all summer long. I am always longing for something cool and refreshing in the summer. Yesterday’s trial was a strawberry lemonade made with fresh ingredients. I let Kerry try a sip of mine and the response was “OH DAMN” and followed by “you wrote this down right?” I get in trouble from time to time for making things up in the kitchen and not writing them down for future use. OPPS!<\/p>\n

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So I was thinking that since today is Friday I would toss this up so that you can stop on your way home from work for a bag full of lemons and start your weekend out with this wonderful and refreshing drink.<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/h2>\n

4 regular lemons (juice and skins needed)
\nSimple syrup infused with lemons (recipe below)
\nLimoncello<\/a> (Lemon liqueur)
\nwater
\nStrawberries (optional, or use a fruit you like in your lemonade)<\/p>\n

Simple Syrup<\/h2>\n

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I peeled the 4 lemons with a vegetable peeler only getting the yellow skin. Place those in a glass measuring cup, add 2 cups of boiling water and 2 cups of sugar. Stir to dissolve and let rest\/cool. I placed the remainder in a canning jar with a plastic lid to use later. This would be great in tea or if you have a soda stream make your own lemon soda.<\/p>\n

Strawberries and lemon juice<\/h2>\n

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I placed my poor little peeled lemons in the microwave for about 20 seconds and then rolled them on the counter to juice them up. I then used a lemon press to juice them. You can use what ever method you like, but you must use fresh lemon juice.<\/p>\n

While giant hunks of strawberries are fun I prefer something that I can actually get through a straw (keep your wise cracks to yourself). I placed a handful (maybe 8) strawberries in a blender with about 1\/4 cup of sugar and enough water to pulse them into a nice chop. I had strawberries frozen in the freezer for occasions like this.<\/p>\n

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Making the delicious beverage<\/h2>\n

In a glass mix these ratios 1 oz water, 1 oz lemon juice, 1 oz limoncello, 1 TBL simple syrup, and 1 TBL of strawberry. This made way more strawberry and syrup than I need for this batch but I would prefer to squeeze the lemons fresh. My plan is to put 1 TBL of the strawberry in ice cube tray compartments and freeze for future use.\u00a0 My guess is this made like 4 drinks. You may want to adjust the sweetness but this was a good starting point, still a little tart.<\/p>\n

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\nENJOY!<\/p>\n

Bonus info:<\/p>\n

Now if you are creative and a do it yourself kind of person you will find recipes online for making your own limoncello. I tried this once and as I recall it took like a bag of lemons but just the peel and a bottle of vodka. I had placed the ingredients in one of my large vacuum sealer canisters and gave it a quick zap, removing enough air to keep the lid on. I walked to the entry way and opened the closet door, it was recommend to store this in a cool dark place. As I reached above my head with the canister to place it on the shelf it exploded, the lid came flying off and there was vodka and lemon peel all over everything. I purchased my limoncello after that.<\/p>\n

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I get creative about drink making generally around winter holidays and all summer long. I am always longing for something cool and refreshing in the summer. Yesterday’s trial was a strawberry lemonade made with fresh ingredients. I let Kerry try a sip of mine and the response was “OH DAMN” and followed by “you wrote this down right?” I get in trouble from time to time for making things up in the kitchen and not writing them down for future use. OPPS!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So I was thinking that since today is Friday I would toss this up so that you can stop on your way home from work for a . . . → Read More: Adults like lemonade too<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beverages","category-everyday-life","category-food-leisure","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}