# Lemonade

Learn to make the greatest lemonade of all time using a little bit of food science, where the natural lemon flavor comes from the zest, not the juice.

- Category: Drink
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 cups sugar
- 8 whole lemons
- 2 cups water
- 1 whole lemon

## Instructions

1. Add sugar to a bowl.
2. Zest 8 lemons into the sugar, ensuring not to get the white part of the lemon.
3. Massage the lemon zest and sugar together to extract the oils from the zest.
4. Transfer the lemon-sugar mixture into a pan.
5. Add 2 cups of water to the pan.
6. Bring the mixture to a boil.
7. Once it comes to a boil, kill the heat.
8. Strain the syrup into a bowl.
9. For a super clear syrup, run it through a coffee filter into a mason jar.
10. Cut one whole lemon in half.
11. Squeeze the juice from one whole lemon into a mason jar.
12. Add ice to the mason jar.
13. Sweeten with the lemon syrup.
14. Top it off with water.

## Equipment

- bowl
- grater
- pan
- strainer
- coffee filter
- mason jar
- knife

## 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

## Source

- Original video: https://youtu.be/iU_LyKctbws?si=vk2wnjPakajkj_MT
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/d9b07673-a669-46bb-bab1-65d4ca40c75c
- Extracted: 2025-06-22

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