It is getting hot in Vancouver! Summer seems to have come a little early and I love making old school beverages to beat the heat.
I picked up a whole whack of limes for $1.99 at Killarney Market and wanted to make an old-school limeade with them. When life gives you sad-looking limes…
I was surprised at how few recipes there were out there in the cyber foodie world for a traditional limeade. Everyone wants to make them all fancy with cilantro or a jalapeƱo syrup… Not me. At least not yet. I wanted to just enjoy the pure flavour and energy of summer limes.
The Recipe
To a medium sauce pan add 3 cups of water and a pinch of salt.
Add 3/4 cup sugar and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for five minutes.
To help the cooling process of the simple syrup get enough ice that when melted would be about 1 cup.
In the meantime you want to juice your limes.
Keep going until you get 3/4 cup of lime juice. This took about six limes for me.
Take the simple syrup off the heat and add the ice cubes. Stir.
Fill up a sink with cold water and add the sauce pan to cool off. If you still have some ice cubes, add them to make an ice bath. This will help cool off the syrup. I wanted limeade NOW!!!
Pour the syrup into a medium beverage container and add the fresh lime juice. Stir.
Juicy Results
Damn!!! Summer in a glass! I actually love this even more than homemade lemonade which tends to give me a sore throat for some reason.
Can you imagine adding some rum or gin to this? If I drank, that is what I would do to take this traditional limeade to the next level.
This is a perfect summer drink. I made it for pennies and totally from scratch. Love it! Hope you do too.
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Love that retro decorated glass you served it in! We had glasses very similar to that when I was a kid back in the days of the dinosaurs.
Thank you! It’s one of my favourites and it’s just so perfect for limeade, isn’t it? My grandparents had some that had oranges on them that they would use when we would visit. That was dinosaur days too. š
We make homemade lemonade and limeade all the time. No sugar though but still yummy. Love your class. So flippin’ fun.