Porches and Lemonade
Lemonade
- 1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 1 cup simple syrup (recipe below)
- 1/2- 3/4 cup water (depending on how tart you like your lemonade)
- Strips of lemon peel from 2 lemons
Stir everything together. For a real frosty treat, blend the lemonade at high speed with a glass full of ice until slushy.
Yield: 2 tall glasses of lemonade
Simple Syrup
When I started working in catering kitchens, I was stumped the first time a chef gave me an instruction to use “simple syrup”. In the years to follow (especially during my years in baking and pastry school as simple syrup is a staple in the dessert kitchen), I have learned what a useful and versatile preparation it is.
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
Stir the sugar into the water over medium heat until it is completely dissolved. Simple syrup may be stored in the refrigerator for several weeks.
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4 Comments
I like mint in my simple syrup! and if i’m really ambitious I’ll put the lemon peel in while i’m making the syrup and then dry the peels for fabulous sugar encrusted lemon peels. eyes rolling. i have a back porch! lemonade is a great thing! Thanks for the porch and the lemonade reminder, my friend!
September 21, 2012
@ Ann- thanks for the tips. I also like putting dried culinary lavender in simple syrup and steeping it.
September 21, 2012
When I was a child in New Orleans, the front porch was the center of the neighborhood’s social universe. We, however, never called it the porch, we called it the gallery. It was also my private reading room. Rain or shine I sat in the glider on the gallery reading from sunrise to sunset. I remember being displaced by the ladies of the block, after the chores were done and the sun had set. They gathered on the gallery, mosquitos permitting, and shared the days events, contes (gossip) and cares. These discussions often went late into the evening as it was a tad cooler on the gallery than in the interiors of the house.
BTW, I like a drop of vanilla in my lemonade with a sprig of fresh mint on the rim of the glass.
September 21, 2012
Thanks, Uncle Reiss, for sharing your porch story.
September 21, 2012