Lebanese Lemonade - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 large fresh lemons
1 cup white sugar or 1 cup Splenda granular, sugar substitute
6 cups water
2 fresh oranges, juice of, Squeezed (optional)
1 tablespoon orange blossom water (mazaher)

Preparation

My way:
Juice the 4 lemons and put juice in pitcher discarding rinds,seeds and pulp.
Add Sugar/Splenda and the water. Stir.
Juice the 2 Oranges and add juice to pitcher.
Add the 1 Tablespoon of Orange Blossom Water (mazaher).
Chill and serve with a few ice cubes.
Authors recipe:
Wash lemons and quarter them, place in bowl.
Sprinkle sugar over lemons evenly, rubbing sugar into lemons and hand squeeze them in bowl.
Put this mixture and water in a pitcher for 2-3 hours.
Stir mixture then put through a strainer, discarding the pulp and rinds. Add Orange Juice and Orange Blossom Water.
Chill 3-4 hours and serve with ice.