Lemon ice - for quick tonic cocktails and cooling hot tea

If you combine water and lemon and freeze them together, you get lemon ice. Lemon cubes will help out on hot days - they will quickly reduce the temperature of the tea and make it tastier. They are also useful for summer cocktails. Plus, they're just useful.

Lemon ice - fruit healer

Lemon, like all fruits, loses its vitamins at high temperatures. But when frozen, it preserves them almost 100%. Therefore, adding lemon ice to tea, fruit juice, vegetable or fruit salads, cold coffee, mineral water, ice cream will make them tastier and enrich them with vitamin C and beneficial minerals.

Everyone knows about the rich vitamin C content in lemons. There is much less about 22 valuable mineral compounds that can cleanse blood vessels, slow down cell oxidation and even fight cancer.

Let us recall some beneficial properties of frozen lemon:

• supports immunity,
• helps with insomnia,
• cleanses the intestines,
• strengthens bone tissue,
• has antimicrobial properties,
• supports liver function.

With the loss of only 3% of water from body weight, a person’s performance is significantly reduced, and his general condition worsens. Cool drinks with lemon ice in the heat will help overcome drowsiness and increase tone.

How to Make Lemon Ice Cubes

We suggest you try making lemon ice according to the “lazy recipe”. All you need is a lemon, freezing molds, clean drinking water and a knife.We will use the lemon along with the peel - it contains many useful substances.

1. Wash the lemon thoroughly under running cold water with a fruit brush or an unused toothbrush. Then pour boiling water over it and dry it with a disposable towel or ironed cotton towel.
   
2. Cut the lemon into rounds if you are going to use large freezing ramekins. For example, silicone cake molds are suitable. If you will be freezing the cubes in a standard mold from the refrigerator, cut the round lemon slices into 3 - 4 slices so that they fit freely into the cell of the mold.
   
3. Fill each cell of the mold with clean drinking water. If you use silicone molds, it is better to pour water in the refrigerator itself so that it does not spill when moving.
   
4. Place the water-filled lemons in the molds in the freezer. Freezing will take several hours. It is convenient to load the molds into the refrigerator in the evening - in the morning the lemon ice will probably be ready and can be used throughout the day.
   
5. Remove ice cubes from molds to a plate and use for chilled tea, drinks, cocktails or salads.
   

Lemon ice from a large mold looks impressive and interesting. When added to a cup, tea cools very quickly and acquires an amazing taste.

How to make pumpkin cocktail with lemon cubes

A delicious vitamin cocktail with lemon cubes can be made not only from fruits, but also from vegetables. Try making it with pumpkin.

Required:

• 0.5 kg pumpkin pulp,
• juice of ½ lemon,
• 1 tbsp. spoon of honey,
• 1 glass of drinking quality water,
• 4 lemon ice cubes.

How to cook:

1. Grate the pumpkin and place it in a blender.
2. Add squeezed fresh lemon juice, honey and water.
3. Grind with a blender until smooth.
4. Pour the cocktail into glasses and add wedges of lemon ice.

Cool summer cocktails with fruit are prepared in the same way.

How to Make a Refreshing Ginger Drink with Lemon Ice
This drink has tonic properties.

Required:

• 2 cm ginger root,
• juice of ½ lemon,
• 1 tbsp. spoon of honey,
• 1 glass of boiling water,
• 2 lemon ice cubes.

How to cook:

1. Grate the ginger root on a fine grater.
2. Pour boiling water over it and let it brew for 15 minutes.
3. Add fresh lemon juice and a spoonful of honey (to taste).
4. Stir, pour the drink into a cup with lemon cubes at the bottom.

Frozen lemon and lemon ice cubes can be added to smoothies, salads, soups, borscht and even meat.