Lemon Verbena Lemonade

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 1/4 cups water
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1/4 cup lemon verbena leaf
• 5 cups fresh lemon juice, strained (from 24 lemons)
• boiled water, cooled
• 24 lemon verbena leaves

Recipe

• 1 bring sugar to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring to dissolve sugar. remove from heat and add lemon verbena. cover, and steep for 15 minutes. strain through a fine sieve, and let cool thoroughly.
• 2 combine lemon juice and lemon verbena syrup in a pitcher. fill glasses with lemon verbena ice, and divide lemonade among glasses (or cover and refrigerater for up to 3 days).
• 3 lemon verbena ice cubes:.
• 4 fill 2 ice trays halfway with water, and freeze. top each cube with a lemon verbena leaf and cover with water, and freeze for up to a week.