Brazilian Lemonade
Ingredients:
4 juicy
limes (try and find ones with thin, smooth skins; they’re the juiciest and the
thin skin cuts down on the chance of your drink being bitter)
1c. sugar
6c. coldwater
6 Tbsp. sweetened condensed milk
Instructions:
Mix cold
water and sugar very well and chill until ready to use. This step can be done
ahead of time.
Wash limes
thoroughly with soap (I just use hand-dish washing soap or regular hand soap);
you need the soap to get the wax and pesticides off of the limes because you’re
using the WHOLE lime, baby. Cut the ends off the limes and then cut each lime
into 8ths. Place 1/2 of the limes in your blender.
Add 1/2 of
the sugar water, place the lid on your blender, and pulse 5 times. Place a
fine-mesh strainer over a pitcher (the one you’ll serve the lemonade in) and
pour the blended mixture through the strainer and into the pitcher. Use a spoon
to press the rest of the liquid into the pitcher. Dump the pulp and stuff in
the strainer into the trash. Repeat with remaining limes and sugar water. Add
sweetened condensed milk; DO NOT leave this step out unless you will die of a
horrible sweetened condensed milk allergy because this is the secret
ingredient! You may want to taste test it at this point; I used giant,
thick-skinned limes tonight and didn't test it and it came out a little bitter.
If it’s bitter, just add some more sugar and maybe a little more milk.
Serve
immediately over lots of ice. This does not keep well, so don’t make this in
advance (although you can cut the limes, mix the sugar water, and measure the
sweetened condensed milk in advance). Serves 4, although I can pretty much
guarantee you that people will want more; I usually plan on 1 1/2 servings at
LEAST per person.
