How to Make Fresh Lemonade

• Active Prep Time: 15 mins
• Ready Time: 4 hours
• Makes: 1/2 gallon (2 quarts)

Learn how to easily make fresh lemonade using Karen’s secret recipe with organic lemons and fresh mint from the garden!

Nothing screams summer picnic more than fresh lemonade! 

If you’ve been making fake or powdered lemonade, stop. It tastes gross. With just a few ingredients, you can easily make real lemonade that everyone will love.

And, with our super juice recipe, you can make a half gallon of lemonade with only one lemon! It’s like lemon concentrate only fresh and delicious. This is an all-natural, no-waste, cost-effective method of using the whole fruit. 

This simple recipe can be made by anyone, even the kiddos.

Here’s the secret. To make the lemonade, you first need to make lemon super juice. All you need is:

• Organic Lemons (organic preferred since you will use the whole fruit) 
• Citric Acid

Karen’s Simplified Lemon Super Juice 

One lemon makes about 1 ounce of juice. Or you can use our recipe to turn one lemon into 9 ounces of super juice! The super juice has the same acid content but an oil content that is 3-4 times more potent than what you would get with hand-squeezed juice. In other words, more flavorful. 

• Active time: <10 minutes

Lemon Super Juice

Ingredients

• 1 Organic lemon 
• 1 Tablespoon Citric Acid
• 1/8 teaspoon Potassium Citrate (optional)
• 1 Cup Water 

Instructions

1. Lemon should be at room temperature. Roll to release juice. Wash, then peel the fruit. 
2. Put peels in a pint Mason jar with citric acid. Shake well and leave for one hour. 
3. After one hour, juice the fruit into the jar or blender. Empty the peels and acid into the blender and use the water to rinse the jar into the blender. Blend on high for one minute. 
4. Strain through a fine mesh strainer into a Mason jar.
5. Cap the jar and refrigerate. Label the jar with washi tape.

Now it’s time to make the lemon mint ice cubes. I prefer to put these in lemonade instead of regular ice cubes so the drink doesn’t lose its flavor as the ice melts.

Begin by using scissors to cut the top leaves of mint (TIP: count 3 rows of leaves from the bottom, then cut the top). Gather your supplies:

• Superjuice
• Freezer-proof Mason jars (or ice cube trays)
• Jar caps

Lemon Mint Ice Cubes

Ingredients

• ¼ cup lemon juice
• 2 cups water
• Mint

Instructions

1. Fill an ice cube tray or jars with mint.
2. Shake together juice and water. Pour into an ice cube tray or freezer-safe jars with mint. TIP: If using jars, keep 1/2 inch space at the top to allow for expansion when the liquid freezes.
3. Cap with freezer-safe reCAP Mason jar caps or reuse sauce caps or canning lids.
4. Freeze until solid. Then loosen by running hot water around the jar.

Now let’s put it all together and have a party!

Make a Lemonade Stand or Party Table

Lastly, store lemonade in the refrigerator using reCAP Mason Jars POUR lid or FLIP cap to seal the top of your jar.