Lemonade Syrup

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 pint water
• 6 lemons

Instructions

1. Cook the sugar and water together without stirring until it is a thick syrup, adding the grated outer rind of one of the lemons. When this is cool, add the juice of the lemons, and bottle. By diluting with ice water you may have lemonade at short notice. This syrup may also be used as a basis of many cooling drinks. By adding grape juice, you have grape-juice lemonade. A dozen sprigs of fresh spearmint added to a quart of lemonade will give you another flavor. Tea lemonade is made by taking a cup of the lemonade syrup and adding to it a pint of tea infusion, a quart of ice water, and, if liked, a fourth cup of orange or pineapple juice. You can make the lemonade syrup in any quantity you wish. Some people make the thick syrup, and add the lemon juice when making up the lemonade.