r/mildlyinfuriating • u/marcus_dobre_lover • 19h 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 19h 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 18h ago edited 10h 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_Fed 18h 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 15h 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.