Homemade Lemon Squash

PREP TIME
15 mines
COOK TIME
10 mines
TOTAL TIME
25 minutes
Lemon squash recipe - easy day lemon squash without preservatives and
additives.
AUTHOR: SATYAM
RECIPE TYPE: beverage
CUISINE: world
SERVES: 750 ml

INGREDIENTS (measuring cup used, 1 cup = 250 ml)

500 grams lemons, 10 to 12 lemons or 1 cup lemon juice

1 cup water
500 grams or 2 heaped cups of organic unrefined cane sugar or regular sugar or raw
sugar

tsp. saffron/Cesar, crushed (optional)

8 to 9 green cardamoms/chatty leach, crushed or 1 tsp. cardamom powder
(optional)

INSTRUCTIONS
1.
2.

First in a pan or sauce pan, take 1 cup water and 500 grams sugar.
Keep this sugar-water solution on a low flame. Stir so that the sugar dissolves. The
solution will be sticky when you touch it.
3.
When all the sugar has dissolved switch off the flame. You can also heat the sugar
solution till string or 1 string consistency.
4.
Next step will be to filter the sugar solution of its impurities. Line a bowl with a
strainer. Line the strainer with a muslin cloth.
5.
Now pour the hot sugar solution carefully through the muslin lined strainer into the
bowl.
6.
Heres the collected sugar syrup in the bowl. Let this filtered sugar solution become
lukewarm or come down to a room temperature.
7.
Then rinse the lemons well in water. Halve them.
8.
With a lemon squeezer, extract juice from each half in a bowl or mug.
9.
From 500 grams lemons, I got 1 cup lemon juice.
10.
If there are small seeds in the lemon juice, then filter it through a tea strainer.
11.
Powder seeds of 8 to 9 cardamoms and tsp. saffron/Cesar in a mortar-pestle.
Keep aside.
12.
Now add the lemon juice to the sugar syrup. The sugar syrup should be lukewarm or
at room temperature when you add the lemon juice.
13.
Add the powdered cardamom and saffron. Stir the lemon squash very well.
14.
Now pour the lemon squash in a sterilized bottle or jar. Close the lid tightly and
refrigerate.

15.

When preparing the lemon squash drink, add 3 to 4 tbsp. of the squash in a glass
and add water. Stir and serve. You can also add ice cubes in the drink or make the drink
with chilled water.

NOTES
For sterilizing the glass jar - boil water in a pot. Place the glass jar in the boiling water.
Also add the lid separately (make sure the lid is not made of plastic). Sterilize them in the
boiling water for 8 to 10 minutes. Remove carefully with a pair of tongs and allow them to
dry naturally.