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Lemon Cordial
lemon cordial
- 4 small/medium lemons
- plus your saved lemon carcasses if you have used the juice to make houmous
- 230 g sugar
Cut lemons into eighths, removing only the very top and tail (just a couple of milimetres of trimming). Boil them and the sugar, in approximately a litre of water for around 45 minutes to an hour, until they are very mushy and have fallen apart.
Pulverise the fruit and all the liquid in your food processor/liquidiser until it is a very smooth liquid.
Dilute this approximately 1:5 but test to see what strength you prefer.
Make this once in the month if you are following our planner.
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