The birds outside the window and the sunshine on my face are screaming out that it’s finally spring! In the spirit of this glorious season I gladly bring you lemon-limeade not from a powder or can! And even better, you don’t necessarily have to squeeze your own lemons, although you may if you so desire. With these proportions in your pocket as guidelines be as creative as you like!
Lets begin!
First gather your friendly lemon-limeade ingredients.
Today our family of ingredients are: Sugar (I’m using Florida Crystals organic), Lemon juice, Lime juice, and Pure Almond exract. Oh! And your favorite pitcher.
Measure out 1/2 cup total of lemon and lime juice. You can mix them together however you like, including straight lemonade or straight limeade. I just happened to be short on both so mine was about equal parts.
Next measure out 1 cup of sugar. I know, I know. This is NOT a low cal drink, but…I promise it’s worth it :D.
Now go ahead and pour both the sugar and lemon/lime juice in the pitcher of your choice and stir them together.
After muddling the juice and sugar together fill your pitcher up the rest of the way with water and stir that all together until it seems like the sugar is pretty well dissolved. I’m not entirely sure the size of my pitcher but I’m thinking its somewhere around 50-60 oz.
Before you start to gulp down our delicious concoction lets not forget the last ingredient…
To finish our lemon-limeade out I like to add a 1/4 teaspoon of almond extract to the pitcher. It adds a little je ne sais quoi and rounds out the sharpness of the lemon/lime perfectly.
After all this not-at-all hard work go reward yourself with a nice tall glass of lemon-limeade. It’ll feel like spring has finally sprung.
Recipe
Lemon-limeade
1/2 cup total lemon/lime juice
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp pure almond extract
water
Directions:
Muddle together lemon/lime juice and sugar in pitcher. Fill pitcher with cold water. Add almond extract and stir until sugar dissolves. Serve and enjoy!
Eat well and love much all you beautiful people,
Lemon-drop Lady
I am definitely making this for this weekend – which is sure to be filled with not much more than… PACKING! I can’t think of anything better to sweeten (???) it up 🙂 WOO! i LOVE easy, delicious recipes!