Simple, Classic Lemonade #recipe from Molly MacRae

 

Back in the 80s, when my children were small, we came up with a recipe for lemonade and wrote it down in a little spiral notebook my mom gave us. The notebook’s cover has a picture of a hungry goat’s face. Inside, the goat is taking a bite out of each page. The page with the recipe has seen better days, not because of goats, but because we’ve had the notebook open to that page for the forty years we’ve been making that lemonade (and keeping track of the notebook). It’s lemonade so delicious that even a goat might like a frosty glass.

 

Simple, Classic Lemonade

Serves 8 to 10

You’ll find a free, downloadable, printable pdf of the recipe below the directions. 

Ingredients

1 cup sugar (white or brown)

1 1/2 cups lemon juice (fresh or bottled)

6 1/2 cups water

Ice (optional)

Directions

Put the sugar and Lemon juice in a glass or plastic pitcher or bottle. Stir or shake until the sugar dissolves. Add the water and stir or shake again. Chill or sever immediately over ice. 

 

🍋 click here for a free, downloadable, printable pdf of this recipe🍋

 

 

Out now!

All Shell Breaks Loose

Book 3 in the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries!

 

On North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island, Maureen Nash sells exquisite seashells to locals and tourists—with Bonny the shop cat and the ghost of a Welsh pirate for company. And when needed, she steps in to help the police solve a murder . . .

Dr. Irving Allred is boasting around town that he’s about to get his hands on an authentic haunted sword. But minutes after Maureen hears the story, a woman walks into the Moon Shell, sword in hand. She found it while walking her bulldog on the beach—and its blade is stained with what looks like blood. Looks like it’s time to call the sheriff’s department.

Allred is furious that his prize is now in police custody—and even more agitated that an unknown buyer was trying to outbid him. He’s convinced the sword will lead him straight to the ghosts he’s been hunting. He’s not the only one on the Outer Banks who’s been searching for spirits, though. An odd visitor also showed up at Maureen’s shop claiming the ability to sense them . . . though somehow she didn’t seem to notice Maureen’s spectral friend hanging about.

When a man who’d been camping nearby is found cut down along the shore, Maureen starts providing some unofficial assistance to Captain Rob Tate by digging into the island’s maritime history. But it’s not the only mystery she’s facing—because the shop’s resident ghost is seeing ghosts himself . . .

Happy reading! 

 

The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries, the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries, and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Visit Molly on Facebook and Pinterest and connect with her on Instagram or Bluesky.