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Canning Homemade Lemonade

04/02/2015 by Katie

Mmm.. Homemade Lemonade!

I have to admit, one of my mommy pet peeves is juice.  Once a child inevitable gets a taste of commercially processed juice at a birthday party or play date, then crave it, like sugar sucking zombies!  Having a healthy alternative to HFCS filled foiled  pouches is must during summer time.

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This homemade lemonade cans up so easily, you’ll wonder why you’ve been buying expensive organic juice all this time.  Not only will the kiddos love it, but adults will too.  I can my batches up in quarts, which makes for a perfect gift to take to summer bbq.

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Late last fall my parents retired and moved to Arizona for the winter, because apparently, that’s what you do when you retire.  But don’t let them fool you, their not even old! Their just pretending to be, so they can flee negative temps and the 4 feet of snow, to go soak up some sun for 6 months.  This meant two things to me.. 1.) Winter will be lonely on the farm without my momma and 2.) Fresh citrus! .. this alone might just be worth all that agony. Growing citrus on the homestead  isn’t going to happen here any time soon, so I asked my parents to grab me a couple of boxes of lemons from the farmers market on their way back home.  And lemons I got.  70 pounds of lemons to exact.  Homemade lemonade was my first mission.   I couldn’t wait to stock the pantry with antioxidant rich, tasty lemonade.

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This recipe is super easy and the best part is, you can can it up and have the taste of summer all year round, even when its snowing and your wearing wool socks, like today.

Canning Homemade Lemonade
 
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Ingredients
  • 24 large lemons
  • 3.5 Cups of sugar
  • 1 Cup water Per quart of juice
Instructions
  1. Prepare water bath canner and lids according to manufacturer instructions.
  2. Wash and sterilize jars and utensils.
  3. Cut the lemons in half. Using a citrus reamer or juicer, juice the lemons, straining the seeds and pulp as you go. *see note
  4. In a nonreactive kettle, heat sugar, water and lemon juice until it reaches 190 degrees, hold juice at this temperature for 5 minutes.
  5. Carefully ladle lemonade into pint size canning jars, leaving ¼ inch head space.
  6. Wipe down rim and seal with lids and rings.
  7. Place in the hot water bath, once a rolling boil has occurred, can for 15 minutes, adjusting for altitude.
  8. Turn off heat and wait an additional 5 minutes prior to removing jars.
  9. Let jars sit untouched for 24 hours. Remove ring and store in a dark pantry for up to one year.
  10. RECONSTITUTE 1 part lemonade concentrate to 2 parts water
  11. Makes 5 Pints or 10½ Pints
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Canning Homemade Lemonade | Homesteading | LivinlovinfarminYou could make your job super easy and purchase one of these, or you can be a glutton for punishment and use one of these, like I did. I picked mine up at Target years ago in the dollar bin. Score!  However, even juicing them by hand, it still only took me 30 minutes.  And hey, tomorrow I won’t need to do a upper arm workout.  Double win.

One large lemon should yield 1/4-1/2 cup of lemon juice.  The end yield will depend on the amount of juice the lemons gave.

NOTE * Save your lemon seeds if your planning on doing any special jams, jellies or marmalade’s this year, as the seeds contain natural pectin.

For a fun adult twist, substitute the water for tonic and add a splash of vodka.

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Comments

  1. Melissa French, The More With Less Mom says

    04/10/2015 at 7:11 am

    Anybody who has tasted fresh lemonade knows it’s an entirely different animal from processed juices. Thanks for posting. Hello from HomeAcre Hop.
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  2. Kathy Melendez says

    03/04/2016 at 12:56 pm

    I don’t understand removing the ring before storing. Won’t the seals break?

    • livinlovinfarmin says

      03/04/2016 at 1:44 pm

      No, actually the contrary. Leaving the ring on could false seal a jar. Some times the seal on a home canned products will loosen. If the ring is on the jar, then it could reseal itself in a unsafe manor and you would not know that the jar had been unsealed and now very dangerous. However, if you remove the ring, and the seal pops, it can not reseal itself and then you will know to discard the jar immediately. I hope that makes sense.

  3. Lynette says

    03/05/2016 at 8:01 am

    What ring are you talking about?

  4. Danielle says

    05/01/2016 at 6:21 pm

    Did I miss something? The recipe says 1 cup water? So how
    Much more water do I use to fill up pints?
    Thanks

    • livinlovinfarmin says

      05/03/2016 at 2:25 pm

      Hi Danielle,
      You will need to add the water to pot along with the lemon juice.

  5. Jodi says

    05/11/2019 at 4:47 am

    The link to the recipe is broken in the article. Can you add it back so I can see it? Thank you.

    • Katie says

      05/17/2019 at 12:22 pm

      Hi Jody,
      I got it fixed. Thank you for the heads up!

  6. Tiffany Wood says

    07/09/2019 at 8:07 am

    Can you add other fruits to make strawberry lemonade or peach lemonade concentrate?

    • Katie says

      01/05/2020 at 2:02 pm

      Hi Tiffany,
      I would add any additional fruits at the time of consumption.

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