Lemon syrup made by yourself
Time
Preparation time: 20 min.
Cooking or baking time: 30 min.
Rest period: 72 hours
Total preparation time: 72 hrs. 50 min.
This lemon syrup is very easy to make yourself.
ingredients
- (all) leaves of a lemon verbena
- 4 lemons
- about 300 g of sugar
You can get lemon verbena from any garden center, or you can order it in March, April via the internet.
preparation
- Take a 3 liter pot and add one and a half liters of water. This one heats. The water must not boil, but only boil.
- Personally, I take all the leaves of the lemon verbena and put them in my pot. This is a matter of taste, I like the verb taste more intense.
- Then I take the four lemons and brush them, cut them small, whether you slice them, or quarter or make small corners, is left to your imagination.
- So and then the most important thing ... the sugar. I do not like it so sweet and so take about 300 g of sugar, you can take more. If you are not sure, start with less, and keep trying, you can choose your own sweetness.
- This brew is left to simmer for about half an hour.
- Cover the pot in a place where it does not bother to leave for seven days. I am fortunate to have a balcony and put my pot and its contents there.
- After seven days, I can pass everything through a sieve into another pot and boil everything, fill the syrup to the brim of the bottles and close the lid. This has the advantage that it is durable.
- Let the bottles cool, done.
You can also easily make jelly like this:
You take verbena, lemons, if you like, oranges or tangerines. What's your taste. Crush it, heat it. I always leave it for two days. Very important, no sugar! Then pour through a sieve and process with jelly sugar three to one to jelly.
