Whip up a glass of freshly squeezed single serving lemonade in under 5 minutes with just a few ingredients! With just a cup of lemonade, there's no sharing required!
Upon arriving home from vacation and looking into an empty fridge, I found three sources of substance. Leftover lemon cookies, sandwich bread, and 1 lemon.
And since I spent way too much money on eating out while on vacation, I decided it was time to get creative. So I whipped up a peanut butter sandwich, glass of lemonade, and topped it all off with a few bites of a leftover sugar cookie.
Ingredients to Make a Glass of Lemonade:
- Lemon
- Water
- Sugar
No big pitcher or premade mix required, just some good ol' water, sugar, and lemon juice to make a nice and refreshing glass of lemonade. The perfect drink to soothe a sore throat on a 90 degree day.
How to Make Lemonade with Lemon Juice
- Step 1: Cut the lemon in half and squeeze over a bowl. If you have a lemon squeezer tool, this typically works best to get all the juice out but using your hands is just fine.
- Step 2: Remove any seeds that may have landed in the bowl during squeezing.
- Step 3: Heat ¼ cup of water in the microwave (or if your faucet gets super hot, this works too). Once hot, stir in sugar until dissolved. (If you were to just stir the sugar in cold water, it would be grainy.)
- Step 4: Add cold water and lemon juice, stir, top with ice, and you've got yourself a freshly squeezed glass of lemonade!
How many lemons does it take to make a glass of lemonade?
It only takes about 1 large lemon to make a glass of lemonade.
Single Serving Freshly Squeezed Lemonade
Ingredients
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Instructions
- In a large cup, stir the ¼ cup hot water and 2 tablespoons granulated sugar together until dissolved. (For a less sweet drink, start with 1 ½ tablespoons of sugar and add the remaining ½ tablespoon at the end if you want it sweeter.) For lemons that are more tart, you may need to add a little more sugar.
- Add in ¾ cup cold water and 3 Tablespoons FRESH Lemon Juice, then mix.
- Top with lots of ice!!
Notes from Melissa
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With summer pretty much here (how is tomorrow June?!), I anticipate lots of lemonade in my future. As a wise ol' man once said, "Where there is heat, there shall be lemonade..."
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I added 1 more each tablespoon of sugar and lemon juice and it came out perfect for me.
Love that you made it your own with a little extra sugar and lemon. Glad it came out perfect for you!
Wow it took me just a few minutes to make, and its even more delicious than I expected!! It tastes much better (and its very probably healthier) than any you may buy :-)
Thanks for the recipe ! <3
So glad you loved it, Agnes!
I use this ALL the time! Perfectly written!
Using it all the time is the highest compliment. So glad it's been helpful, Jami!
The recipe is great except NEVER use hot water out of the tap. When you need hot water for ANY recipe always heat it from cold water. Hot water out of the faucet not only tastes terrible, it can be dangerous. Lead and other dangerous metals/chemicals are much more soluble in hot water.
Please start your delicious lemonade recipe by heating your water from cold water.
Great recipe! I added a tablespoon more of sugar but that's all!
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review, Alyssa! I really appreciate it!
Managed to fulfill my craving for a single glass of lemonade!
Delightfully surprised how easy that was!
Thanks for an awesome recipe 👏🏽
Thank you so much for leaving a review!
Excellent for a single glass of delicious natural lemonade!
Well done!!
Thank you so much for leaving a review, Gene! Glad to hear you enjoyed this recipe!
It was very tasty and sweet. Best lemonade ever.
Thank you so much for leaving a review, Krystal!
Just what I was looking for on a 90 degree summer day in Wisconsin! Fresh, yummy, ice cold lemonade! Delicious!! Simple, really good recipe!
Thank you so much for leaving a review, Judy! So glad you enjoyed this recipe!
I retired to Florida and planted a lemon tree. Got loads of free lemons and used this recipe for lemonade. Sooo good! Now I'm addicted. And yesterday our heat index was 112° so this recipe was great. Thanks!!
I would love to have a lemon tree in my backyard! So glad this recipe could hopefully tame the heat a little bit! Thank you so much for leaving a review, Melody!