Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups sugar
Juice of 6 lemons (1 1/4 cups)
Instructions:
1. In a saucepan over medium-high heat, bring the sugar and lemon juice to a gentle boil and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
2. Pour the syrup in a squeaky-clean bottle and keep it in the fridge. With sparkling water, this will make a delicious drink on a hot day. Serves 4
Customize it!
Replace lemon with orange.
Add 1 inch grated fresh ginger, let steep, and strain the syrup before you pour it into the bottle.
Add mint leaves to the glass of lemmo.
Add a handful of fresh rose petals or dried jasmine (from a specialty tea store) to the syrup in the pan, turn off the heat, and let it steep for about 1 hour, then strain it into the bottle.
This Lemon Lemmo Recipe was reprinted from Home Made Summer by Yvette van Boven, published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang, an imprint of Abrams, 2012.
