Brazilian Lemonade

As some of you may know, I love do it yourself projects! I am obsessed with DIY blogs, and often attempt to try a few my own. This includes fun recipes, signs on canvas, flowers, etc. Here is one of my recent attempts.

Brazilian Lemonade!

Recipe calls for:
1 cup sugar
6 cups cold water
4 juicy limes (Smooth, thin-skinned limes are the juiciest and least bitter)
6 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk

1. Mix cold water and sugar very well and chill until ready to use. This step can be done ahead of time.
2. Wash limes thoroughly with soap; you need the soap to get the wax and pesticides off the limes because you're using the whole lime. Cut the ends off the limes and then cut each lime into eights.
3. Place half the limes in your blender. Add half of the sugar water, place the lid on your blender and pulse 5 times.

4. 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 residue in the strainer into the trash. Repeat with remaining limes and sugar water.
5. Whisk in sweetened condensed milk.

6. Serve immediately over lots of ice. This does not keep well, so while you can mix the sugar and water ahead of time and slice the limes, don't mix them in the blender until you are ready to serve.

And wallah! Two Brazilian Lemonade (more like Limeade) for a hot summer day!

All credit goes to Our Best Bites by Mormon Mom's in the Kitchen: Sara Wells, and Kate Jones!