Remember to drink when it’s hot out!!

It’s really hard to drink enough in the heat we have experienced the last few days. Water is as always the best but sometimes we just need that little bit extra – a treat. Homemade lemonade is a great one, and simple to make too:
Ingredients:
Water 1lit
1 lemon
2 limes
1-2 tablespoons of sugar
To taste
Mint leaves or
Ginger root

Method:

Wash lemon and limes and put them in a blender together with 300ml of water and mint or ginger. Blend it thoroughly and leave stand for a couple of minutes. Pour the mixture through a sieve and make sure you get as much of the liquid as possible. Mix the liquid with the rest of the water and sugar to taste. Voila!! A lovely summers drink.
 Mint gives the drink a bit of a mojito feeling, beautiful as a non alcoholic drink. Mint also acts as a digestive aid.
 Ginger gives the drink a grown up spicy taste. Ginger has been used to help with morning sickness, a wonderful find by the University of Rochester is that Ginger can stem the nausea felt when receiving chemotherapy by up to 40%.
 Ginger has also traditionally been used to help reduce inflammation in Arthritic conditions.