If you’re looking for a drink to help you send off the tail-end of summer, or you’re just looking for something cool and refreshing, I highly recommend this sweet honey limeade. With only three ingredients, it’s fast, couldn’t be easier, and has a nice punch of honey flavor.
If you like this recipe for sweet honey limeade, consider checking out my recipe for Margherita Crostini.
Ingredients
The juice from 4 limes, 117 grams of juice
3/4 cup honey, 171 grams
7 cups water, divided, 1588 grams
Preparation
In a medium sauce pan, heat your honey and about a third of your water over medium-low heat until the honey is melted*, then turn off the heat and set aside.
Juice your limes into whatever pitcher you’ll be storing the limeade in, then add in your remaining water. Once your honey/water mix has cooled**, add that to the pitcher with your lime juice and water, then stir and chill completely*** before serving. Also be sure to shake/stir the pitcher very well just before serving.
Notes
* It can be hard to tell if the honey is melted, especially if you’re using a dark-colored pan. If the pan has been warm for a while and there isn’t any honey that is noticeably thick and unmelted, it’s probably fine to remove it from the heat.
** How long it takes to cool depends on how warm it was when you took it off the heat, and how comfortable you are with putting warm liquid into a pitcher. Since you’re pouring it into a pitcher with a lot of cold or room temperature liquid, you don’t need to cool it down completely unless you really want to.
*** I’ve tried this just after making it, but it’s significantly better cold. I quite enjoy it cold, but I probably wouldn’t bother making it if I could only drink it warm – so I highly recommend chilling it completely before serving.
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