Portuguese Lemonade - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 red bird's eye chili (peri peri pepper)
7 meyer lemons (one of them sliced)
1 cup honey (orange blossom is good)
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, minced
1 liter seltzer water, well chilled (or sparkling water, unflavored)

Preparation

Place the pepper in a 1 1/2 liter pitcher and crush with a pestle.
Juice 6 of the lemons and pour the juice into the pitcher.
Warm the honey slightly in a microwave and add to the juice, stirring well.
Add the cilantro and lemon slices.
Just before serving, add seltzer to pitcher and stir lightly.
Serve over ice.