Refreshing, cool and less sugar than most shop bought soft drinks.
Ingredients
- 4 large lemons, peeled with a veg peeler
- 400g granulated sugar
- 15g citric acid
- 1 litre boiling water
- sparkling water
- ice cubes
- lemon slices
Method
- Squeeze the lemons place the juice into a large bowl along with the lemon peel, sugar and citric acid.
- Pour over the boiling water and stir until dissolved.
- Cover and cool completely.
- Bottle and dilute with sparkling water as needed, I add extra lemon slices to the cordial and also plenty of ice cubes.
Phil's Tips
How many grams in a teaspoon of sugar?
- 1 level teaspoon holds 4g of sugar
- 1 heaped teaspoon holds 7.5g of sugar
Action on Sugar, set up earlier this year to reduce the amount of sugar added to food and soft drinks, found that 79% of the sugary drinks included in its survey of 232 sugar-sweetened drinks from leading supermarkets contained six or more teaspoons of sugar per 330ml can.
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