Old-Fashioned Lemonade

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 1/2 cups lemon juice
• zest from one lemon
• cold or sparkling water
• lemon slices, optional
• mint leaves for garnish

1. Measure the sugar and water into a sauce pan. While stirring with a wooden spoon, bring the mixture to a boil for 5 minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat. Let cool slightly.
2. Add fresh squeezed lemon juice and lemon zest to the sugar syrup. Cool completely. Pour the lemonade syrup into a quart jar. Cover tightly with the lid. The syrup can be kept in the refrigerator for 2 or 3 weeks.
3. When you're read to serve the lemonade, put some ice cubes in the bottom of a glass. Our 1/4 cup of the lemon syrup over the ice cubes. Add 3/4 cup cold water or sparkling water and stir.
4. Float a thin slice of lemon and, if you like, a fresh mint leaf on top of each glass.rnThe recipe makes enough syrup for 14 glasses of lemonade.
5. Pink lemonade: add 1/2 cup grenadine syrup to the jar of lemonade syrup and stir.rnStrawberry lemonade: add 2 tablespoons of puree of fresh strawberries into each glass.rnLimeade: Replace lemon with lime juice and lime zest.

sugar, water, lemon juice, zest from, cold, lemon slices, mint

Taken from food52.com/recipes/22568-old-fashioned-lemonade (may not work)