Lemon juice to beat the heat!

I like lemonade when it's hot. You're right; it's very refreshing. It's also better for you than cold tea or soft drinks, which a lot of people drink when it's hot.

Lemon juice is simply lovely when the weather is hot! I like it served cold with ice. The other great time to have lemon juice is when you are suffering from a cold but at that time it is best to have heated lemon juice with a little bit of ginger in it too.

I love lemonade, however I have never had fresh lemon with soda added to it. Are you adding soda water or something like 7-up. I also drink alot of lemon flavored water - that is my favorite. My kids make lemon and lime slushes they take fresh lemon and lime juice and add crushed ice. The can drink those all day long and it is better than all that sugar stuff from kool-aid.

Tucson, Arizona| Published: 07.27.2005
ST. LOUIS - Endless sunshine. Hot. Dry mouth. Must . . . quench . . . thirst.
Is anything better than lemonade for the task, here at the height of the heat of summer? The simple, basic elixir of lemon juice, water and sugar - served on ice - can seem to drop your internal temperature to that of a mild spring morning.
That's the starting point for our list of recipes for summer lemonades: a fundamental version we're calling "6-6-1" to help you remember the proportion of juice to water to sugar, even if you don't have a printed recipe in front of you.
As we worked our way through various recipes, we began to recognize several distinctive approaches. Some simply juiced the lemons, either squeezing by hand or using a manual or mechanical reaming juicer; others called for slicing the lemons, still with their peels on, then steeping them in boiling water, pressing down on the lemons from time to time to release the juice and the oils that are in the colored portion of the peel.
Other methods provided tangible additional flavor but took a parallel amount of additional work. In one, we sliced the lemons, put them and the sugar in a bowl, then pressed repeatedly with a wooden spoon or other hard utensil before adding the water.
In another, we boiled a cup of water with a cup of sugar, then steeped the colored portion of the peels. We then stirred the resulting syrup into the lemon juice and remaining water.
Along the way, we also tested a recipe that tried to shortcut the additional work by chopping the lemons coarsely in a blender. This technique resulted in a bitter edge from the white pith that is attached to the peel.
Among flavored lemonades, a big favorite among our tasters was Lavender Lemonade, which is slightly sweeter and denser due to an approximate ratio of 5 lemons to 4 cups of water and 1 cup sugar. It also has a wonderful aroma and just a hint of a bite in the flavor from a lavender infusion made with 1 cup of the water.

I hardly drink lemon juice. Maybe lemon is not that popular in my place. But some times I will buy some lemon if I see any stall selling lemon. I slice the lemon and add into the honey. It is nice. This is call honey lemon juice. Have you try before? happy mylotting.

I prefer it fresh just as your grocer does it but without the soda.