Serves 1
Directions
- 1Add sugar to a bowl.
- 2Zest 8 lemons into the sugar, ensuring not to get the white part of the lemon.
- 3Massage the lemon zest and sugar together to extract the oils from the zest.
- 4Transfer the lemon-sugar mixture into a pan.
- 5Add 2 cups of water to the pan.
- 6Bring the mixture to a boil.
- 7Once it comes to a boil, kill the heat.
- 8Strain the syrup into a bowl.
- 9For a super clear syrup, run it through a coffee filter into a mason jar.
- 10Cut one whole lemon in half.
- 11Squeeze the juice from one whole lemon into a mason jar.
- 12Add ice to the mason jar.
- 13Sweeten with the lemon syrup.
- 14Top it off with water.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 8 whole lemons
- 2 cups water
- 1 whole lemon
Equipment
bowlgraterpanstrainercoffee filtermason jarknife
Tips
- If you get the white stuff from the lemon in the zest, it's going to be super bitter.
- If you want a super clear syrup, run it through a coffee filter.
- The sugar extracts the oils from the zest, giving you natural lemon flavor.
- Once it comes to a boil, kill the heat right away and strain it.
- There is not much lemon flavor in the lemon juice, so to get the lemon flavor, you need the lemon skin/zest
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