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Concentrated Lemonade

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. one pint of cold water
  2. one and a half ounces of citric acid
  3. Sirup
  4. a tumblerful of lemonade
  5. two and a half pounds of sugar

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Syrup Source of iron

    Source of iron · 3.6 mg per 100 g, 26% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Iron contributes to normal cognitive function.
    • Iron contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Iron contributes to normal formation of red blood cells and haemoglobin.
    4 more authorised claims
    • Iron contributes to normal oxygen transport in the body.
    • Iron contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Iron contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Iron has a role in the process of cell division.

    Iron is a mineral that the body needs for growth and development. Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body, and myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen to muscles. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Syrup, Cane”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Make a rich sirup of two and a half pounds of sugar and one pint of cold water and boil gradually.
  2. Pour it hot on one and a half ounces of citric acid.
  3. Bottle tight while hot.
  4. One tablespoonful will make a tumblerful of lemonade.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan