Recipe: "Life Without Lemons"
Ingredients - 50 lemons and 10 plastic freezer bags.
Method - Cut lemons in half, put 5 lemons in each bag and put bags in freezer.
Get a big jar (BIG) and make Moroccan preserved lemons. Google will give you a simple recipe. Use kosher or sea salt instead of the chemical one. In six to eight weeks you will have lemons that will last a year - and, you can repackage in small jars for Christmas gifts!
Why not squeeze the juice and freeze it in ice cube trays? When frozen take the cubes out of the trays and store in freezer bags. Each cube is approx 1-2 teaspoons of juice and can be used easily in recipes. I also grate the zest and freeze it until I need it.
I've been known to zest the lemons and freeze it, then juice those babies and freeze the juice in a glass jar. Be sure to mark how much (in volume) you have in there so when you're ready to use it you won't be guessing.
If life gives you lemon have some lemonade,or mix the juice on some sweetened condensed milk,and the zest on the crust and merengue,and have some pie.Now if life gives you lime...try some arab food.
I recently had a bunch of lemons I didnt want to go to waste so I made lemonade syrup: 2 c. sugar in 1 c. water in a saucepan, add rind from 3 lemons (used a veg peeler to quickly peel thin yellow rind, avoid pelling into white part). Add 1/8 tsp. salt and bring to a boil; boil 5 mins. Cool then add juice from 6 lemons. Strain and store in glass bottle. Add 1-2 Tbsp. to a glass of seltzer on ice.
And of course, you must preserve some. Make a few jars, spicing each differently. I routinely play with crushed coriander seed, cinnamon sticks and bay leaf. Some people add chilies to theirs. My next batch, I'm going to add some sprigs of rosemary.
Another idea, and timely for the season ahead, is to candy the peel! Use the juice from those lemons to make rosemary lemonade.
You can also just freeze the juice. I make 8-ounce jars of rosemary syrup which I freeze and keep on hand with 4 ounce jars of frozen lemon juice, to have on hand when company stops by. (I do the same thing with mint syrup and lime juice to make vvvanessa's Mint Limeade!)
And don't forget to save the pips and membranes (freeze them) to tie into cheesecloth and drop into your jam kettle next summer, as they are full of natural pectin.
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Ingredients - 50 lemons and 10 plastic freezer bags.
Method - Cut lemons in half, put 5 lemons in each bag and put bags in freezer.
Another idea, and timely for the season ahead, is to candy the peel! Use the juice from those lemons to make rosemary lemonade.
You can also just freeze the juice. I make 8-ounce jars of rosemary syrup which I freeze and keep on hand with 4 ounce jars of frozen lemon juice, to have on hand when company stops by. (I do the same thing with mint syrup and lime juice to make vvvanessa's Mint Limeade!)
And don't forget to save the pips and membranes (freeze them) to tie into cheesecloth and drop into your jam kettle next summer, as they are full of natural pectin.
Have fun!! ;o)