Grilled Lemonade

You need: 

8 Lemons

 cut them in half and dip into sugar

Is your mouth watering yet?!!

Place on grill for 5 minutes 

When you check on Lemons...

they should be bubbling like this:

Let cool.

***

While you wait:

SIMMER TOGETHER 

Sugar Syrup:

1-1/4 cups sugar

1-3/4 cups water

pinch of salt

Let cool.

***

  Go back to your cooled lemons 

and squeeze them through a strainer

then put into your pitcher 

then add the cooled 

sugar syrup

add some

ice

and some of the 

grilled lemons

Then find yourself 

a comfy seat on the porch

and sip the day away!!

Making the Grilled Lemonade this weekend 

made us think of our 

"Lemonade on the Porch" 

post last year....

Stop on over and see how we took

Vintage Hankies

and used them to tell our guests glasses apart!!

Have a lovely 4th of July tomorrow!!

~Karla & Karrie

The Summer Kitchen Girls

Lemonade on the Porch

Come and sit down on the porch...

it's time to cool down with some lemonade

and to chat about some

 Vintage Inspired Entertaining ideas....

We've used a vintage silver tray

that we just picked up from and Estate sale this month....

We prefer this silver tray @ $6

 to any plastic thing that comes from the store these days!

We've put these sliced lemons

in a little vintage sherbet glass

We've placed this adorable flow blue bone dish

 (that we got this spring at the Hell's Kitchen Flea Market)

on the tray so that your guests will have something

to put their lemons on when they are finished with them

We've put a sweet little embroidered vintage tea towel

on the tray for color, but also to catch any drips that might occur....

A pretty cut glass vintage pitcher that we inherited into our collection

holds some delicious cold lemonade

Now it is time for a

History Lesson:

These....

these pretty glasses we found at an estate sale this spring as well

they are called "Oak Harbor Glass"

Oak Harbor

 is a town not far away that these glasses came from.

During the war

{not sure if it was I or II}

A gentleman set up the

Oak Harbor Glass Company

and taught women how to etch glass....

and that is where these glasses came from!

 **************

And now we come to the

Entertaining Tip:

Last year on vacation we picked these pretty hankies up

in Lexington Michigan

Take assorted colors of pretty hankies

and tie them around your glasses

Bigger hankies for larger glasses

Smaller hankies for the petite glasses....

Isn't this the cutest??

Not only will the hankies help the glasses from sweating

but

they will help your guests know

 which glass is theirs!

We LOVE this...

and have been dying all week to show you all!!

Sip some Lemonade with us as we visit

Debra from Common Ground

for some fantastic vintage inspired ideas for

Vintage Inspiration Friday!