I watched this Chef John the other day and had never thought/heard of doing lemonade like this, what a good idea.
If you don’t want to watch the vid the trick is making some lemon sugar by peeling the zest, in big sheets, off of 4-6 lemons and then covering it in sugar in a container and letting that sit for a few hours/overnight. It gets all wet and oily, you can stir it up a few times to help. Then you mix that with hot water to dissolve it real good, strain out the peels, let it cool down all the way and then squeeze in your lemon juice.
So I made some, with different proportions, less sugar, I was just eyeballing that stuff, and drank it last night. It was good. Strong taste, nice sophisticated hint of bitterness. You can really taste that peel taste. “The peel is the real deal,” they say.
I took the leftover ade and carbonated it over night, and now I am drinking that. It is so good. Thanks John.
