Lemon – a fruit tree from a sort of a citrus. Its fruits – a well of vitamins and useful substances. It contains huge amount of vitamin C and also And, In, E, P, organic acids, essential oils, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, etc. Lemons are widely applied in cookery, and both fruit pulp, and a dried peel is used. Drinks from this citrus turn out extraordinary tasty and useful.
It is required to you
- The cooled tea with a lemon:
- - 1 tsps of a black or green tea;
- - 1 lemon of the average size;
- - 10 tablespoons of sugar;
- - 1.5 l of water.
- Ginger ale with a lemon:
- - 1 tsps of fresh ginger;
- - 1/4 tsps of a yeast powder;
- - 1 large lemon;
- - 1 cups of sugar;
- - nonfermented or black tea to taste;
- - water.
- Lemonade:
- - 2-3 large lemons;
- - 1 cups of sugar;
- - 2 l of hot water;
- - sparkling water.
- Lemon liqueur:
- - 3 lemons;
- - 750 ml of alcohol or vodka;
- - 700 g of sugar;
- - 750 ml of water.
Instruction
1. The simplest drink which can be made from a lemon – the cooled tea. For its preparation make a teaspoon of a black or green tea in a boiled water circle. Let's infuse minutes 5-10 and filter. Cut a lemon circles, remove all stones and put in a 2-liter decanter or to bank. Add brewing tea and sugar. Carefully mix and fill in with hot water. In several hours, drink will cool down and will infuse. After that it can be given to a table.
2. Also ginger ale with a lemon will turn out not less useful. Grate ginger or small chop a knife. Squeeze out juice of a lemon and crush a dried peel. Mix everything in a 3-liter can. Add sugar and a yeast powder. For giving to drink of color it is possible to use a little made nonfermented or black tea. Fill in all with warm water (not higher than 30 wasps) on a coat hanger banks, well mix and cover. Leave future ale approximately for day at the room temperature. Then filter, pour on plastic bottles and put in the fridge for 6-8 hours. On the expiration of this time ginger ale will be ready. It will perfectly satisfy thirst and also will strengthen immunity.
3. Besides it is possible to make lemonade of lemons, almost same as sell in shop, only much more usefully. Well wash out lemons under flowing water. Then accurately remove from them a dried peel and cut off a white layer. Save pulp of lemons from stones and crush in the blender. Then put a dried peel with the processed pulp in a pan and fill up with sugar. You love more with pleasure – sugar it is possible to put more. Add hot water and on average fire bring to the boil. Take on a plate the boiling syrup 1-2 minutes. As will cool down, put in the fridge for 6-8 hours. Then filter. Before giving on a table dilute syrup with table sparkling water in a proportion 1:1.
4. From lemons it is possible to cook also alcoholic beverages. For example, very tasty liqueur. Choose large ripe lemons. Carefully wash out and dry them. Then remove a dried peel, and squeeze out juice of pulp. Connect a dried peel, juice and food alcohol or vodka of good quality in a glass container. Leave this mix in the dark and cool place for 30 days. Then filter.
5. Weld sugar syrup and waters. Let's cool down and dilute it with lemon and alcohol extract. When future drink decolorizes from bright yellow on opal, pour it on bottles and leave in the dark cool place for a month. It is better chilled to give on a table liqueur. Such drink will become excellent aperitif on a ladies' sit-round gathering.