Most years I buy in a box of organic lemons (usually around 36 or so lemons) direct from seller somewhere in Spain, and process them as soon as received, as follows. 1) use a potato peeler to peel off the coloured layer of peel from each lemon, and lay out to dry/dessicate. 2) cut each (now peeled, but still encased in soft, white inner peel) lemon in half and squeeze as much juice as I can out. Pour juice into ice cube trays and freeze. 3) - if I'm not tired by now, this last is optional - scrape and save a few of the bits of white pithy inner peel and dice. Pickle these using a recipe I have for watermelon pickles. (If I'm tired and skip this, all goes into the compost heap and is given to the soil). 4) a few days later, when peel is completely dry and crackly, whizz with coffee grinder to a powder, pack into a jar containing a paper towel, to keep in the fridge and take as needed as a Vit C supplement. (Also flavours food. But I add at the end, so as not to cook out the Vit C). 5) knock the lemon juice ice cubes into plastic bags and put back in freezer to pull out as needed when a cold is coming on. 1-3 cubes in a cup of hot water....
...AND this last is what makes your GROG recipe look very, very enticing! Thank you!
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Re: Fire Cider Dream
Date: 2024-09-13 08:25 am (UTC)1) use a potato peeler to peel off the coloured layer of peel from each lemon, and lay out to dry/dessicate.
2) cut each (now peeled, but still encased in soft, white inner peel) lemon in half and squeeze as much juice as I can out. Pour juice into ice cube trays and freeze.
3) - if I'm not tired by now, this last is optional - scrape and save a few of the bits of white pithy inner peel and dice. Pickle these using a recipe I have for watermelon pickles. (If I'm tired and skip this, all goes into the compost heap and is given to the soil).
4) a few days later, when peel is completely dry and crackly, whizz with coffee grinder to a powder, pack into a jar containing a paper towel, to keep in the fridge and take as needed as a Vit C supplement. (Also flavours food. But I add at the end, so as not to cook out the Vit C).
5) knock the lemon juice ice cubes into plastic bags and put back in freezer to pull out as needed when a cold is coming on. 1-3 cubes in a cup of hot water....
...AND this last is what makes your GROG recipe look very, very enticing! Thank you!