Cucumber Lemonade

by Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts)
Posted Jun 1st 2007 2:48PM
Filed under: Recipes, Spirit of Summer, Non-alcoholic

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The summer is coming on strong and that means lemonade, lemonade, lemonade. Yesterday I gave a recipe for the rather interesting Hickory Smoked Cherry and Bourbon Lemonade, and here's another lemonade concoction, from Eating Well. This one utilizes cucumbers! English hothouse cucumbers, to be exact. Recipe after the jump.

Cucumber Lemonade

2 English (hothouse) cucumbers
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
2 1/2 cups spring or filtered water
1 Simple Syrup or agave syrup

Finely grate cucumbers into a fine-mesh sieve set over a bowl. Drain the cucumber for 1 hour and collect the juices. Press on the cucumber pulp to extract any additional juice. Add lemon juice, water and syrup, if using, to the cucumber juice. Serve chilled or over ice.

Tags: aol food, cucumber lemonade, CucumberLemonade, eating well, english hothouse cucumbers, lemon juice, simple syrup, summer drinks

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6-01-2007 @ 5:04PM

Maggie said...

This sounds great--I had a cucumber and lime agua fresca recently, and I'm sure this would be reminiscent, and also great with lime juice. But the recipe doesn't say how much syrup, unless I misunderstand

6-02-2007 @ 1:28AM

camille said...

just add good gin.

6-02-2007 @ 1:45PM

Daniel said...

Just add 1 simple syrup!

6-03-2007 @ 5:08PM

Dan Turner said...

I used 1 cup of simple syrup - just made it today. I recommend doubling the recipe, at the very least. My modifications leave the recipe as:

4 cukes
4 limes
2 cups water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup corn syrup

I juiced the limes, grated the cukes finely and drained them with a mesh colander, and reserved the juices. In a pot I brought the water and sugars to a boil, then cooled that in the fridge. Mixed together, served over ice, very cooling. My friend enjoyed it shaken with ice and rum.

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