The Limeade Project

Dan got a hankering for a REAL limemade, so he looked up a recipe and went to the store last night for the ingredients(mainly just for the limes) because we had everything else. Like I said in previous posts, Joshua is interested in helping in the kitchen and this time it was Daddy's turn to have a little helper. I documented the process in pictures, of course!

The limeanaters! ha ha!

First you have to squeeze the juice out of the limes to make 1 cup, that's about 6 to 8 limes.


Rolling the limes produces more juice.

Joshua making sure it is right at the 1 cup mark!

All the limes Dan had to squeeze for this limemade

Then you bring 1 and1/2 cups of water to a boil

Once the water is boiling, you add 1 and 1/2 cups of sugar

You let the water and syrup mix together and let it cool until it has formed a simple syrup. You then add the lime juice to the simple syrup and mix. Then you mix together 8 cups of water and the syrup lime mixture. Mix well and then pour over ice and enjoy.

Unfortunately, it took a little bit for the simple syrup to cool down, so Joshua did not get to taste the limemade that he helped make, because it was his bedtime, but he did get to taste some today and he said it was delicious. This doesn't surprise me, because he loves to eat lemons and sour stuff doesn't really bother him. Dan said that the next time he is going to add more limes. It was tart, but not tart enough for these guys!