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When you get lemons, make lemonade

I do and it is seriously awesome. Well, I make lemon cordial and use that to make lemonade. It’s all good.

I can’t remember the first time I made lemon cordial. I know I made it with my Granny though. Lots of my first cooking experiences were with Granny. All that I can recall were sweet. Ah, sweet tooth, though art inherited 😉

Anyhoo, my recent making of lemon cordial was triggered by the birthdays of two wonderful women that I know. I had know idea what to get them, but I wanted to get them each something and since they are both people who appreciate handmade gifts, they got lemon cordial. I collect and save glass bottles ’cause presentation is important, plus, my cordial deserves to be in clear, colourless glass, so you can appreciate the natural colour and the beauty of the lemon zest suspended in the syrup.

My cordial is also extra special, because the lemons I use to make it are never bought. They are gifted to me by people with lovely mature lemon trees. This means the lemons used are not only organic (no one I know sprays their lemons) but also local. Nice 🙂

I’m not giving you my recipe, although it’s easy to find equivalents online, but the ingredients listed in order of mass are:
sugar, water, lemons (juice and zest), food acids (citric and tartaric) and love (it’s not last because it’s least important, but ’cause it’s weightless).

I was concerned about the large amount of sugar, but I calculated it, and since you dilute it about 1:10 in water when you make it up, it ends up with significantly less than coke or sprite, just in case you were worried 😉

I’ll take a photo of it sometime, otherwise, feel free to come over and try the real thing, on hot days mix with cold water, on cool days with hot. Both ways it makes me feel good 🙂

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