How make homemade lemonade using real lemons

Today on The Stay At Home Chef I'm showing you how to make homemade lemonade. 

using real lemons! 

Freshly Squeezed lemonade is an old-fashioned treat you can enjoy all spring and summer long.

I bought this huge bag of lemons at Costco and I cut

them all in half. I'm going to take my strainer and

put it directly over my measuring cup. And squeeze the lemon juice right into it using my handy dandy little hand juicer. The strainer will catch all of. 

the seeds and pulp leaving nothing but the juice. I love this little. hand juicer because it really digs in there and get all of the juice out.

When you're using fresh lemons it's hard to predict how much lemon juice you'll get from each one so when you're making homemade lemonade it's important to squeeze the lemon juice first because homemade lemonade is all about the ratio.

It looks like we have about 2 cups which is perfect. So now I'm going to pour this directly into a pitcher and then head on over to the stove to make. our simple syrup.

 We have a saucepan we'll get it heating here. And since we had two cups of 

lemon juice we will pour in 2 cups of water. You want to use the same ratio here and then 2 cups of

sugar. 

You can see that the liquid is looks all milky. You want to start this over the. heat until it goes clear again. This part is chemistry in action! You're really. dissolving the sugar into the water to form a solution. The heat is what allows. 

the sugar to dissolve completely. 

If you just put it in cold water and threw it. 

together you would have something but this will create a smooth textured simple syrup that will be perfect for lemonade. It really doesn't take long for that sugar to dissolve.

The solution has a little bit of a yellowish tint to it but it'll be clear and that's how you know it'sdone. So, remove it from the heat and pour this directly in with your lemonade Lemon juice, I meant to put it iin with the lemon juice not the lemonade. Putting it together is when it becomes lemonade. 

Now at this point you can actually freeze this for later enjoyment. Just pour it in gallon ziplock bag and lay it flat in the freezer. But I'm not gonna do that today.

 I want to enjoy it fresh so at this point you'll just add water to personal taste. Some people like their lemonade super strong while other people like it a little more on the weak side and that's ok. 

You can also add in fresh lemon to make it all pretty...lots of ice because that's syrup is hot. And then pour yourself a delicious glass of fresh squeezed

homemade lemonade. Thanks for reading this post! The recipe is in the post description