r/mildlyinfuriating • u/marcus_dobre_lover • 18h ago

I just wanted a hot dog Mom bought 150 lemons.

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She randomly comes back with a butt load of food items once in a while

Any lemon recipe suggestions

\she’s 44, for people asking her age\.

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u/virginia_lupine 18h ago

Juice them, then freeze the juice into cubes with a silicone mold. Fresh lemon juice year round!

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u/Fantastic-Hippo2199 17h ago edited 8h ago

6 lemons, 5 cups water, 1.25 cups sugar.

Use vegetable peeler to peel zest off lemons. Put in bowl, mix with sugar, let sit overnight. Sugar will pull out lemon oils.

Heat water, mix with sugar / peel mix and strain out peels. Let cool.

Juice lemons and add to sugar water. Cool. Serve over ice.

Best lemonade of all time.

Edited boil water to heat water. I usually boil in kettle and let sit for a bit. Idea is that hot water dissolves more sugar faster. It also seems to not precipitate out or get grainy later.

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u/professor_coldheart 16h ago

Repeat 24 times.

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u/TheFrenchSavage 11h ago

That's the kicker yeah. Imagine the state of your hands after all that.

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u/Blamebostonx 16h ago

Saving this ty

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u/MezzoSoaprano 13h ago

That's a lot of sugar.

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u/New_Maintenance_4575 7h ago

American quantities

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u/Fantastic-Hippo2199 21m ago

Well it is lemonade. It's a treat not a staple.

Also it's very strong. Go 50/50 with ice an at its super tart and sweet when you start sipping, mellows out through the middle of the glass, and ends with lemony water - leaving you feeling hydrated.

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u/Professor_Fed 16h ago

Wait, put the sugar/peel mix in the water when it's boiling or after? For how long?

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u/k5josh 13h ago

The water doesn't have to be boiling, just hot. You're just getting all the sugar dissolved and extracting any remaining flavor from the peels. Too much heat will dull the flavor, even.

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u/7h3_70m1n470r 3h ago

THANK YOU! My wife looks at me like I'm insane when i start with hot water

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u/suckmypulsating 13h ago

I see you Jason.

I see you...

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u/watersnakebro 13h ago

Thank you!!

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u/Awkward-Internet2476 12h ago

How much sugar per serving?

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u/Fantastic-Hippo2199 10h ago

Depends on how much ice.

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u/thenaughtydj 8h ago

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u/Zizhou 8h ago

When I make state fair lemonade, I like to make a 1:1 simple syrup with the zest infused sugar, add the lemon juice, and then just keep that around to make lemonade from by adding in another 3-4 parts of water for every part syrup used. In OP's case, it'd be a way to process all the lemons at once and only have to worry about storing ~25% of the total volume compared to fully ready to drink lemonade.

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u/Fantastic-Hippo2199 4h ago

Great idea. Store in fridge or freezer?

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u/Zizhou 13m ago

I usually just pop it in the fridge because I know I'll use it up soon enough, but then, I'm also not using 150 lemons.

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u/BlastTyrantKM 17h ago

For several years

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u/Ok_Tour_8029 15h ago

Decades 

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u/Carb0nFire 17h ago

The real answer. Plus you can also make lemonade with it.

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u/anti_reality 16h ago

Lemon juice has a lot of uses as an acid if you have it available also, or to make dressings. If the cubes were small enough you could even make lemonade by the glass.

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u/jetstream116 16h ago

Then when the weather gets cold enough for soup, look up recipes for the Greek dish “soupa avgolemono” and make it! This is my favorite food but I don’t make it often because squeezing all the lemons is a pain 😂 (yes I could just buy a juicer but I hate having kitchen gadgets that only serve one purpose lol)

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u/Diabetesh 16h ago

Throw a cube into a sauce, a pasta, a curry. Seems like a good idea.

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u/xcver2 13h ago

And buy a new freezer too put that all in

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u/lickthisbook 16h ago

Great idea!

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u/PorcelainPunisher1 16h ago

Yes! I have a gigantic lime tree and do this. I have lime juice, baked goods, margaritas, and limeade all year round.

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u/druex 12h ago

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew...

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u/Bossyboots37 12h ago

Freeze them whole, save yourself a lot of trouble

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u/Lvl100Glurak 12h ago

i don't think overbuying lemons deserves this kind of treatment

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u/Ok_Web_315 11h ago

Don't want only juice, need them also for my herbal teas and electrolytes.

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u/Silly-Feeling2484 11h ago

And find a lemon shaped mold!

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u/Baumes3 10h ago

Frozen Lemon Juice is tasty as fuck aswell

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u/greeneyeraven 8h ago

It gets bitter