The Best Homemade Lemonade Recipe Ever
This is the best homemade lemonade recipe ever…well at least I think it is.
This is such an easy recipe but makes a really good homemade lemonade…and I mean really good.
This is what I would call a grown-ups lemonade because although it is non-alcoholic, it kind of tastes like an alcoholic drink. UPDATE (6 Jan 2008): Check the first comment below regarding the possibility that this may be alcoholic…. in other words if you have a concern then keep this drink away from the kiddies.
We found this recipe originally on the Instructables.com website but unfortunately it is no longer available there so unfortunately we can’t give credit to anyone for it.
The only tricky bit with this recipe is ensuring that the yeast gets frothy as without it you won’t get the fizzy effect of the lemonade. It will still taste good though.
The Best Lemonade Ever
UPDATE (6 Jan 2008): Check the first comment below regarding the possibility that this may be alcoholic…. in other words if you have a concern then keep this drink away from the kiddies.
- 3 lemons
- 500g sugar
- extra tablespoon sugar
- 8 grams yeast
- raisins
- 3 litres of boiled water
- Dissolve sugar in water.
- Peel the rind of the lemons and then remove the pith. Keep the rind and toss the pith.
- Slice the lemons.
- Add the rind and the lemon slices to the sugar syrup.
- Mix a tablespoon of sugar with the yeast into approximately 100ml of warm water.
- Wait until the yeast has gone frothy.
- Add the yeast mix to the syrup and stir in.
- Cover with a clean dish cloth and a tight fitting lid and leave for approximately 24 hours.
- Strain the mixture squeezing any extra juice out of the lemons as you go.
- Pour the strained liquid into plastic soda bottles (it should fill approximately 2 standard size bottles).
- Add 5 raisins to each bottle and cap.
- Refrigerate until cold. Preferably leave overnight before drinking.
Note that in the images below we have used a saucepan to make the lemonade. This is because it is the best pot in the house to make it but you can use anything as long as it seals nicely for when you leave it overnight.
Also it looks as though we are cooking the lemonade as we are working over a stove top but that just happens to be the most convenient spot to make the lemonade.
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I would assume this was an alcoholic drink, especially if it tastes like one.
One of the by products of yeast fed with sugar is alcohol. In bread this bakes off (unless a really soggy bread), but in this drink it’d probably be just sitting around.
So be warned before you start handing this out to your kids in the summer that it probably does have alcohol in it. How much will depend on the fermentation time.
This might also be the reason the instructables website took it down because they don’t want to give kids a easy way to brew alcohol at home. (Instructables is an awesome site)
just a guess.. but as a dad I had to post it.
Thanks for the info Edward. I have made a notation in the blog post above regarding this.
I used to make similar stuff, lemon and other flavors, as a cheap alcoholic drink. The more sugar and yeast and longer fermenting time means more fizz, up to a point, and more alcohol.
Its an easy way for kids to get drunk by just adding yeast and sugar to a bottle of fruit juice to make “wine”.
I liked reading your blog…keep up the good work.
Utter nonsense regarding the alcohol levels of this drink, which will be nominal at best. You would need to leave it to ferment for ages allowing the C02 to off gas, then re-prime the bottle to make it fizzy.
Make this recipe without fear for the kids, if it is consumed within a couple of weeks of making the alcohol levels will negligible at best.
im a little concerned over this recipe….
not because of the alcohol levels which will be less than 1% after the time stated in the recipe (24 hours)
what worries me is that if you dont drink it within 48 hours the yeast will keep metabolizing the sugar and your bottles will swell up and eventually explode! This would be all the more disastrous if you decided to use glass bottles!