Old-Fashioned Lemonade - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 lemons
2/3 c. sugar
5 c. water
5 leaves fresh mint
4 thin slices fresh lemon

Preparation

Cut lemons into small pieces, skin and all, reserving 4 thin slices.
Mix
the cut pieces with the sugar in heatproof bowl. Boil
water
and
pour it over the lemon-sugar mixture. Let stand 10 minutes, no longer or a bitter taste will develop.
Stamp down the mix with a potato masher;
strain and pour into a jug; chill. When serving, decorate glasses of lemonade with mint leaves and lemon slices.