hey guys it's heidi from scandinavian today we're continuing celebrating summertime drinks and we're going to be making a red currant lemonade now how much more summer time can that get okay the first part is to make a simple syrup and we're going to do that on the stove in a second the next part is to actually press the sugar into the red currants and try to get the juices coming out and i've already started that i don't know if you can see that but i'll bring it closer to you so you can see what i've been doing so the red currants have been sitting in the refrigerator with sugar for about an hour and now i'm pressing the red currants into the sugar and it's almost done you want to get all the berries squeezed out for the lemonade so now we're ready to strain the red currant juice through this mesh strainer it just takes a few minutes to do this you might need to push the red currant juice around until you there's no more juice or syrup we're ready to make a strainer i'm pouring in two cups of water and two cups of sugar and now we just need this to boil and have the sugar see the sugar water is boiling and you just want to be 100 sure that the sugar is completely dissolved and once you're you're certain on that then you just want to set this aside okay so now we're ready to make our red currant lemonade and we're going to combine our red currant juice that we squeezed out earlier today we're going to put in our sugar water and which i have a little bit of lemon zest in it just to give it a little extra kick to the lemonade but it's totally optional if you like to have that as well the lemon juice itself that i freshly squeezed earlier today which was of six lemons i'm going to add sparkling water instead of regular water now i'm going to add lemons and of course plenty of ice i'm about ready to pour myself a glass of the delicious red currant lemonade but i have one more thing to do do you remember how we added the lemon zest to kick the lemonade up a notch we're gonna add one cup of these gorgeous red currants and this will make the lemonade pop one cup of red currants guys so now i'm ready to drink my glass of red currant lemonade this is so good oh you've got to try it it's a really great recipe let me know if you have questions for the recipe too and my mother's going to be coming out with more traditional scandinavian recipes a lot for the fall and definitely for the holiday season as well so have a great week guys skull bye please subscribe bye