Sherry's Lemonade Recipe

I always keep a bowl of lemons on the kitchen counter when they are in season. The yellow looks cheerful in the depression glass bowl. It is good to keep them handy. My husband loves to use lemon juice to spice up his meals since he can not go chili spicy because of old fashioned heartburn.

My husband's family, from Guadalajara, always speaks of fruit with reverence. Cuca, my late mother-in-law, liked nothing better than mangos with lemon or lime squeezed all over the slices. The family did the same with cucumbers, roasted cob of corn, onions, papaya, any soup with a chicken or beef broth, carne asada, ceviche, to continue the list would be bad writing form.


Mexico's national bottled inebriant, Tequila, is served with lime.

Where I grew up lemons were for lemonade. That's all.

2 quarts water

3/4 cup fresh squeezed juice from lemons and limes

2/3 cup granulated sugar


Stir and pour over glass of ice.

Pick about ten sprigs of lavender.

Rinse thoroughly to remove dust.

Remove any brown leaves.

Strip off enough flower petals for 1/4 cup.

Add hot water till you have 1/2 cup steeping petals.

Allow to sit for 5 minutes.

Sieve into fresh made pitcher of lemonade.





Bam! Pink lemonade with a slight lavender flavor.

Two years ago we were buried in lemons. We had lots of rain the year before. I was giving them away at work and I decided to freeze the fresh juice. I still have some in the freezer and it does not taste old or stale at all.

I froze the one cup fresh squeezed lemon juice in the cheapest ziplock type bags I could find and stacked them flat in the corner of the freezer. I have to pry them apart now, but the lemonade is as good as the freshly squeezed.

Papaya, lemon and a little salt.

Very tasty.

At this fast food eatery we visited in Hawaii you can get fresh fruit, lemon wedges and spam.

It is called Zippy's.

El arbol se conoce por su fruta.

A tree is known by its fruit. (A person is known by his character.)

Aranda, Charles. Dichos. Proverbs and Sayings From the Spanish. New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 1977.

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