How to Make Lemonade

How to Make Lemonade

Cold Lemonade on a Hot Day If you are anything like me, you get pretty thirsty after playing outside on a hot day. I can go inside for a cold glass of water, but on some days, I wish I had something else. I want something extra tasty- something like a cold glass of lemonade! Making real lemonade is easy. It only takes lemons, water, sugar, and a few minutes.

The Ingredients Are Simple First, ask an adult to help you gather some supplies. To begin, you'll need 10 to 12 lemons, 1¾ cups of white sugar, and 8 cups of cold water. Find a juicer, a pan, a pitcher, liquid and dry measuring cups, a cutting board, a medium-size bowl, and a long-handled spoon. Once you gather everything, you're ready to make lemonade!

Just Follow These Directions In a pan, mix the sugar with one cup of water. Then ask your adult helper to turn on the stove for you. Bring the pan of liquid to a bubbly boil. Stir the mixture so that all of the sugar dissolves into the water. Once it boils, the adult can take the hot pan off the stove and put the mixture in the refrigerator to cool. It will cool faster if you pour it into another container first.

The Super Lemon Roll! Now for the fun part! Most people cut the lemons and squeeze the lemon juice into the pitcher. Lemons may be hard to squeeze that way. You could do it that way, or you could follow a super secret lemon- squeezing tip. Lemons will be easier to squeeze if you soften them first. To do that, smash and roll them on the table or countertop.

Squeezing the Lemons When you're all done rolling and smashing, ask the adult to cut the lemons in half for you. Then get the bowl and the juicer and start squeezing! Push and twist the softened lemon halves over the ridges of the juicer. All the juice will run out. As the juicer fills up, pour the lemon juice into the bowl.