Description
🍋 Refresh yourself with this classic homemade lemonade made with real lemon juice and cane sugar for an authentic taste.
🚰 Perfect for hot days, this refreshing beverage can be customized with ice preferences or a low-calorie sweetener.
Ingredients
1 cup fresh lemon juice (about 4–6 lemons)
1 cup cane sugar
4 cups cold water
Ice cubes (optional)
Sugar-free sweetener (optional, for low-calorie)
Instructions
1. Squeeze lemons to extract juice and remove seeds, ensuring you have 1 cup of fresh lemon juice.
2. In a pitcher, combine the lemon juice and cane sugar. Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.
3. Add the cold water to the lemon-sugar mixture and stir well.
4. Adjust sweetness according to taste, considering the addition of a sugar-free sweetener for lower calories if desired.
5. Serve over ice, with options for extra ice, lite ice, or no ice as preferred.
Notes
🍋 To maximize juice extraction, roll lemons on the countertop before juicing.
🧊 Adjust the amount of sugar to suit your taste and consider dissolving it in part of the water when making larger batches.
🚫 For a diet-friendly version, replace sugar with a no-calorie sweetener to maintain flavor with reduced calories.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Chilling Time: 0 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Beverage
- Method: Mixing
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 270-280
- Sugar: 69-73 grams
- Sodium: 0 mg
- Fat: 0 grams
- Saturated Fat: 0 grams
- Unsaturated Fat: 0 grams
- Trans Fat: 0 grams
- Carbohydrates: 69-73 grams
- Fiber: 0 grams
- Protein: 0 grams
- Cholesterol: 0 mg