Homemade Blackberry Lemonade

🍸Homemade Blackberry Lemonade

Medium
4 minutes
Highball

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🥃Ingredients

  • Fresh lemon juice1¼ cups (about 5–7 medium lemons)
  • Cane sugar (or white sugar)1¼ cups
  • Lemon½ large lemon, sliced
  • Water2 cups, divided
  • Fresh blackberries2 cups
  • Ice4 cups
  • Additional cold waterto top up to 2 quarts

👨‍🍳Instructions

  1. Juice lemons.
  2. Strain to get 1¼ cups juice.
  3. Combine lemon juice, sugar, 1 cup water, and lemon slices in a small saucepan.
  4. Heat over medium-low until the sugar dissolves and the slices turn translucent (12–15 minutes).
  5. Blend the blackberries with 1 cup cold water.
  6. Strain to remove seeds.
  7. Stir the strained blackberry juice into the warm lemon mixture.
  8. Add 4 cups ice to a 2-quart pitcher.
  9. Pour the lemon-blackberry mixture over the ice.
  10. Add cold water to make 2 quarts.
  11. Serve cold.

Pro tip

  • Garnish with lemon slices (optional).

🌿Garnish

lemon wheel

🏷️Tags

Style New Era
Flavor Citrus
Flavor Fruity
Serve Frozen
Occ Brunch
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