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Sweet, refreshing homemade classic lemonade. Enjoy this during the summer months when lemons are at their best!

Homemade Lemonade

water

sugar

lemon juice

simply syrup

water (or sparkling cold water)

 Combine water, sugar in a medium pan. stir together and bring to a boil, stirring occasional. When sugar is completely dissolved remove from heat and allow to come to room temp. If not mixing in immediatly with lemonade store in an air tight container in the fridge.

simple syrup

Mix together simple syrup, lemon juice and water. Stir until combined and serve immediately.  Any left over lemonade store in fridge.

Lemonade

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From the Prouts Neck Cookbook, in which it is called Mrs. Bostwick's Iced Tea.
Notes:

Tea: I have used Lipton black tea bags and other various kinds. My aunt uses Earl Grey. My mother uses Yorkshire Red or Lipton Yellow Label. 
Sugar: This is a recipe I have never tinkered with. It might appear to be a lot of sugar, but it does not taste too sweet (in my opinion). If you do the math it's roughly 1 tablespoon of sugar for every 1/2 cup of tea. If this seems like too much for you, hold back some of the sugar from the start, and add it in to taste at the end.

The Very Best Iced Tea

black tea bags, see notes above

mint

Place the tea bags, mint, and sugar in a large pitcher or vessel (able to hold 9 cups). Pour the boiling water over the top and let steep for 10 minutes.

Remove the mint and tea bags, squeezing the bags to extract the liquid.

Chill until ready to serve. Serve over ice and garnish with more mint or lemon if you wish.

Delicious! I just received your email and quickly made a ½ batch and messed with the sugar...I used ½ the amount called for. Super good, I'm sure the full amount of sugar would be fantastic too! Thank you for sharing this family favorite.

Best, Terrill

This looks so refreshing and I will definitely be making this for a summer gathering. Thank you so much!! Happy 4th of July and I hope you can relax! 

After reading your blog post, I looked and saw that I had all of the ingredients. My family is very picky when it comes to iced tea and this was a winner. My teenage son asked me if I could always have this in the house because it is nice and refreshing. Thank you for the recipe. 

I made this today for the 4th and I made your recommended flag cake. I want to drink the entire pitcher myself! Definitely how I’ll make tea from here on. The flag cake is also great for such a hot day with the fruit and light frosting. Thank you for every recipe you post. I always know I can trust any recipe you post. I love your Bread Toast Crumbs book and recommend it to all my friends! 

I made it and followed the recipe except for using ReaLemon juice (I didn't have any lemons at home) and only one sprig of mint. I will add more as the plant gets bigger! It is delicious! This recipe is easily customized to your taste by changing the amount of sugar and/or lemon juice. I know using fresh lemon juice will be much better, so I can't wait to try that! I have a large Pampered Chef pitcher with the plunger mixer in it. If you have something similar, it works great! I put everything on top of the plunger and moved it up and down a few times while brewing. When it was done I pulled the plunger out and everything came with it. I also used a spoon and gently squished the teabags down (not too hard as it is plastic) onto the plunger to get the last drops. This pitcher can easily accommodate a double batch. 
I'm looking forward to enjoying this all summer long and beyond!

I never make or drink iced tea, but the idea of using earl grey (my favorite hot tea) to make it, got me intrigued.
This is the best best iced tea. I wanted to drink the entire batch at once, but will enjoy this over the next few days. Thank you for the wonderful recipe.

This was delicious!  I’ve been looking for a good ice tea recipe and this was perfect and super easy to make.  I don’t like sweet tea so I used less sugar (about a 1/4 cup) and added two additional hibiscus tea bags.  Will be making it all summer - thank you!

Never thought to do this with mint before. I happened to have some leftover mint and the tea was refreshing! A nice change of pace and a great way to use up my mint! 

I made this iced tea for a dinner party and it was a huge hit! I used 3/4 cup of sugar instead of the full 1 cup and it was still delicious and plenty of sugar for me personally (but I typically prefer less sugar). I loved the lemon and mint. So good!! Will be making again and again :)

This was so amazing!  The absolute perfect proportions of everything. I used Twinings Lady Grey decaffeinated tea because it’s what I drink for tea. It is very mellow and not a strong, bitter tea so it was really lovely. I added about five medium mint leaves because I wasn’t sure about the mint, and could not really taste it, so next time I will maybe add a few more. Delicious!!!  And not too sweet for me. I thought it was perfect as written. Thank you. 

I have made this iced tea several times and I am loving it! I am using Yorkshire tea bags and it's perfect! I cut down on the lemon juice only because I didn't have enough lemons the first time I made it and I liked how it turned out, so I just kept using the juice from one lemon. I think the cup of sugar is the perfect amount of sweetness although it sounds like a lot. When I am at a restaurant, I order half sweet, half unsweet tea and this recipe hits that exact note of "just right."

Just made this after seeing it in your email.  It is delish!  Not overly sweet and love the addition of mint.  I used black tea this time and will try it with green tea next.  

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