Fast and easy old-fashioned Lilac home made concentrated lemonade

I got this recipe from my aunt and with a little modifications from my grandmothers experience, it is a very diffrent, fun and fast lemonade to make! (the original recipe takes 5 days to make) It has a very special flowery taste and is a bit bitter sweet. The colour is very beautiful and makes it really pop when you serve it and will for sure give your guests an exotic and excitingly diffrent new flavour to try. I actually did this last summer with my little brother too, it's so fun that he likes to make and try diffrent things!

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Ingredients

20-30 bunches of lilacs flowers (or as many as you fit in your pot)
1 l water
1 lemon + the lemon zest
5 dl sugar
0,5 tea spoon of atamon or benzoat (preservative)
- the preservative is 1 g per litre water


Shake the flowers and loosen them from their stem so all bugs run away. Put them in a pot or similar, pour boiling water over them and boil for 10 minutes. Remove the flowers and filtrate the water. Add the juice of 1 lemon, the lemon zest, sugar and the preservative, dissolve it in the water. Let cool and fill up your bottle and you are done!

You can of course use this recipe as a base and add other kinds of edible flowers.

Southerners cinnamon soda recipe

My little brother was very enthusiastic today and had borrowed this book from the library and wanted  to make some soda lemonade so we went to the supermarket and got ourselves some apple must and pomegranate. This recipe is from the book "Soda lemonad & snacks" by Tove Nilsson.


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Ingredients

1 pomegranate
1 1/2 dl sugar
1 bottle (6 dl) of apple juice/must
4,5 teaspoons of cinnamon
1,5 tablespoon dried hibiscus flowers
1 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice

Take out the fruit pulps of the pomegranate. Melt the sugar until brown (not burned) then withdraw from heat. Add the apple juice slowly! The hot sugar will cause the water to pop. Careful not to burn yourself. The sugar will harden, dissolve with a spoon. Add hibiscus, lemon juice and cinnamon. Boil on low heat with lid for 30 min, stir in the beginning until all sugar is dissolved. Sieve the liquid. Fill up in a glass bottle, let cool. Serve cold with crushed ice.

This recipe is very sweet so you can use less sugar. Once there is apple season you can make your own apple juice to add to this lemonade.