Once Summer rolls around I am ready for some good lemonade. I grew up drinking Southern Sweet Tea because Daddy is from Texas and that is how he liked it. In the Summer, Mom added lemonade to the repertoire. She used equal parts lemon juice and sugar and added water to taste. But the lemon juice she used was from that green bottle and a few weeks ago I bought a Costco-sized bottle of the stuff and brought it home. Unfortunately I didn’t read the label until I got home, sodium benzoate. Ugh. So no more of that until more studies are done.
Old Fashioned Lemonade was given to me by a book club friend, who on her 52nd birthday went sky diving and has never turned back. She has 563 jumps and just became a member of the Pink Mafia Sisterhood by passing a Barbie Doll during a free fall with a current PMS
member. I wonder how many Barbie Dolls have been harmed in the making of members?
Jennifer is PMS #591. On to the lemonade. This lemonade has to be the smoothest tasting lemonade ever. It uses whole lemons as well but in a different way. First a lovely and very fragrant lemon sugar has to be made which I think I will try in a pound cake some day. Sound good? I think so.
So see the recipe for this sweet and lemony concoction that takes a little time but is very worth it.
ROBIN SUE
Photos & Words by
Robin Sue @http://www.bigredkitchen.com/
Lemonade
Old Fashioned