Lost Lemonade

One thing that anyone who is close to me knows is that I love food. I not only love eating it, but I love watching people cook, researching recipes, and reading cookbooks. The other day I was going through my piles of cook books, deciding what to keep, what to get rid of, and looking for recipes, when I discovered a hand written one. My mother in law had been visiting, so I asked her if she recognized it. To her shock it was her own child cook book that had been missing for decades! Together we looked through it. Some recipes she still used to this day, some she'd stopped using long ago, and some she thought were lost to the ages. One of the latter was lemonade.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of water
• rinds of two lemons cut into pieces
• 1 cup lemon juice (5 to 6 lemons)
• 4 cups ice water

Directions: 

1. Combine first three ingredients in a sauce pan
2. stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved. 
3. Boil 7 minutes.
4. Cool. 
5. Add lemon juice and ice water. 

Since we had all of the ingredients in the kitchen we decided to make it. The only difference was that we boiled the lemon juice with the first three ingredients. We made the lemonade, put it into my antique pitcher, and success! Everyone loved it and the drink was gone within moments. In fact we had to make a second pitcher to satisfy wanting mouths. 

Personally I've never truly enjoyed lemonade, but this was delicious! Tart yet refreshing and not too sweet. I found this perfectly wonderful, simple, and not to heavy on the pocket book. I plan on making this several times  in the future and recommend that others do as well, especially with their family. 

I give this recipe a 10 out of 10.