Question

preparation of lemon sqash​

Answer 1

Answer:

• 1. First, in a pan or saucepan, take 1 cup of water and 500 grams sugar (about 2 cups heaped sugar).
• 2. Keep this sugar-water solution on a low flame. Stir so that the sugar dissolves.
• 3. When all the sugar has dissolved switch off the flame. The solution will be sticky when you touch it. You can also heat the sugar solution till ½ string or 1 string consistency. I cooked till ½ string consistency.
• 4. The next step will be to filter the sugar solution of its impurities. Line a bowl with a strainer that has been lined with a muslin cloth or a thin cotton kitchen towel.
• 5. Now pour the hot sugar solution carefully through the muslin lined strainer into the bowl.
• sugar solution for lemon squash recipe
• 6. Here’s the collected sugar syrup in the bowl. Let this filtered sugar solution become lukewarm or come at room temperature.
• making lemon squash recipe.
• 7. Then rinse the lemons well in water. Halve all of them. 500 grams of lemons are used. Roughly 10 to 12 medium-sized lemons. Pic does not show all the lemons.
• 8. With a lemon squeezer, extract juice from each halved lemon in a bowl or mug.
• 9. From 500 grams lemons, I got 1 cup of 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 green cardamoms and ½ tsp saffron in a mortar-pestle. Keep aside. Both cardamom and saffron are optional.
• 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 powdered cardamom and saffron.
• 14. Stir very well.
• 15. Now pour the lemon squash in a sterilized glass bottle or jar. Close the lid tightly and refrigerate. The yield is about 750 ml of squash and stays good for a month in the Refrigerator. Do check the Notes below in the recipe details on how to sterilize glass jar. us a good quality glass jar or bottle so that it does not crack while sterilizing.
• 16. 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.