Homemade lemonade

I discovered homemade lemonade last week!  Where has this been all of my life? It is so refreshing...it was the perfect thing to sip while sitting in our new pool.  I actually tripled the recipe and filled a huge jug to keep in the fridge so we'd have an endless supply all week...It's really good with mashed up raspberries and I imagine that strawberries (or any berry) would be delicious in this. It's yummy with a little vodka or rum too!  ;)

Here is the recipe...

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups sugar

8 cups water

1 1/2 cups freshly squeezed lemon juice ( from about 8 - 10 lemons)

Directions

1.  In a small saucepan, combine sugar and 1 cup water. Bring to boil and stir to dissolve sugar.  Allow to cool.

2. In pitcher, stir together chilled syrup, lemon juice and remaining 7 cups water.

YUM