Lilac Lemonade
Created by dienia b on April 23, 2015
- Servings: 2
- Prep Time: 6d
- Cook Time: 15m
- Recipe #18595
Ingredients
- Lilacs (50-60 violet flower clusters of with fragrance, you can mix species)
- 3 lemons
- 2.5 liters of water
- 1.8 kg granulated sugar
- 60 gram citric acid
- 9 drops blue food coloring
How to Make
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Step 1: Put flower bunches clean in cold water, swish them around then take off the stem,
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Step 2: Cut the lemons into thin slices.
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Step 3: Boil the water.
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Step 4: Place the flowers, sugar and citric acid in a clean jug.
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Step 5: Pour water over the petals. Add lemons and stir gently.
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Step 6: Cover with plastic film and let the pot cool for 5 days. Cover with plate to keep everything down.
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Step 7: Stir the pot now and then.
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Step 8: Sieve juice and mix any blue food coloring in.
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Step 9: Pour the juice in clean bottles.
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Step 10: Store the bottles in cool place.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (1601.6 g)
- Calories 201.3
- Total Fat - 1.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.1 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 326.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 41.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 10.6 g
- Sugars - 16.5 g
- Protein - 20.9 g
- Calcium - 229.1 mg
- Iron - 5.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 168.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg