This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! This is going to be one of those recipes that was so good, I had no time to take pictures! My grandson Adrian especially loved this one! My son's peach tree had a bumper crop of peaches this year. He has been canning and juicing and cooking and begging people to take some off his hands. So, the other day when I was visiting, I brought home a box of peaches. Alicia, who is here visiting, and I canned 7 quarts of peaches and then we had just a few left over. My son had juiced some of the peaches and canned the juice. I decided to use my leftover peaches to make juice and since I didn't really have enough to can, I decided to see what I would do with the juice if I did can it. So, I came up with this Peach Lemonade that was truly amazing. This was a great way to use my new juicer! I do have to give a caveat about this recipe. For the simple syrup, since I had just finished canning peaches, I had some simple syrup left over from the canning. I used that in my lemonade. So, for this recipe I approximated what I thought the amount should be. You can use more or less of it according to your taste. Also, for the lemon juice, I used some of my frozen juice that I had stored in my freezer. I told you about it on this post. But, I think the measurements I've given should work well. Try it and let me know what you think! This recipe makes a half gallon of Peach Lemonade!
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! Let me explain everything in the order that it happened. I received a citrus juicer as a wedding gift almost 44 years ago. It was great to use whenever I was gifted an over abundance of citrus. Last year, the motor of this beloved gift finally gave out. My dear friend Anita, who happens to be my sons mother-in-law has a lemon tree and she gave my son's family a bunch of lemons from her tree. My son and daughter-in-law passed a large bag of these huge lemons on to me. There I was with no citrus juicer. I was not going to juice all of these lemons by hand, so I got on Amazon and ordered myself a new juicer. Not just a citrus juicer, but a centrifugal juicer that will juice all fruit and separate out the pulp, which you can use for other recipes as well. Here it is: I began juicing the lemons with my new juicer and started to fill ice cube trays to freeze for whenever I needed lemon juice. Unfortunately, I do not own enough ice cube trays to hold all of the juice that these lemons were giving me. So, I broke out my Hot Cocoa Bomb molds and also smaller candy molds such as my owls and my mustaches (similar here). I had to find space for all of this lemon juice to freeze between my freezers. There was a lot. Here are some of the shapes I ended up with: So, I got to thinking about how we only make and drink Hot Cocoa Bombs in the winter months. Wouldn't it be great to have some kind of a summer drink like that? This lemon juice can be the answer, and a little more fun than mere ice cubes. I know that my grandkids will get a big kick out of them. Not only that, the bomb shapes will go much farther than one bomb per person. I can make a gallon of lemonade with just a couple of bombs and some sugar! If you only need one glass of lemonade, here is the fun part that the kids will love! In a 12 oz glass of water, put in 2-3 of the little owls or mustaches plus 2 Tbs. of sugar. Add cold water and stir to dissolve the sugar and lemon juice. Add ice and whatever other ingredients you would like. You can add cherries or strawberries if you like! Every kids could make their own flavor of lemonade! Cool, fun and refreshing! Since this worked out so great with lemons, I can't wait to try other fruits and vegetables in my juicer! I'm getting lots of strawberries, I could add that to lemonade and it would probably be the best Strawberry Lemonade ever! And lets not forget my beets! I haven't even started to try what I can do with the fruit and vegetable pulp. I'm thinking of dehydrating it into flour? Breads and cakes? I can't wait to experiment. If you have any ideas, please let me know in the comments! I always like to try new ideas. If you liked this post, here are more that you may enjoy!
This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support. Let me begin by saying, that this recipe was inspired by my friend Rhonda who brought me a jar of preserved lemons. We have a mutual friend with a lemon tree. We were both the lucky recipients of many of those lemons this year. Rhonda decided to try her had at preserving some in salt and lemon juice, a process that I had never heard of and I am fascinated by it! But, now that we have the lemons, we need the recipes to use them in.
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This is the time of year in Phoenix when your friends with lemon trees gift you with bags of lemons! It is amazing! They still charge 69 cents per lemon in the grocery store, but everyone can get them for free if you have the right connections with people who have lemon trees! Lemon trees are very high producers and there are a lot of things to do with lemons. So, not having a lemon tree myself, having friends with a lemon tree is the next best thing! And they don't mind that I will return the favor by bringing them pie or marmalade.
So, since I am the welcome recipient of some really large and awesome lemons, you will probably be seeing a few delicious lemon recipes on the blog here for a few posts. Because they are ripe this time of year and yet lemons are great to use all year in so many recipes, it is nice to put some plain juice up in storage. You can freeze it or can it. Some people even can lemon slices! I have published a few lemon recipes myself that are well loved by my family and friends, such as:
I read recently that you can can Strawberry Lemonade concentrate for making that delicious beverage during the summer months. I want to give that a try, but the first thing I decided to do with my lemons was make Strawberry Lemonade Marmalade! I had to make it up as I went, which is always iffy because if you don't get the right amount of pectin and the right amount of sugar to fruit ratio, your jelly or marmalade will come out runny and you will be using it as a sauce! But, I am happy to announce that my marmalade jelled, my lids all sealed and this tangy concoction tastes great on an English Muffin!
When you have a lot of fruit to put up, it is always great to have a recipe that uses a lot of the fruit and produces a volume of jars. A great thing about this recipe is that it uses up 10 lemons! Not only that, you will end up with about a dozen jars of jam, depending on the size of jar that you use! That gives you plenty to store in your pantry as well as give as gifts.
I made these cute little labels for the tops of my jars. You can find the file and print them from here.
They are editable.
This marmalade is actually more like a jelly, but if you want more chunks in yours, add larger chunks of lemon rind and more coarsely chopped strawberries.
Without further ado, here is the recipe:
I hope that you enjoy it! Stay tuned for more lemon recipes!
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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