Lemon Cubes

Lemons are abundant this time of year and sometimes your friends bring you a bag full of the yellow fruit. What are you going to do with all those lemons? They won’t keep forever so you need to preserve them – after all your parents and grandparents lived through the Great Depression and it wouldn’t do to just throw them away!

First you need to prepare them for squeezing by rolling them on a hard surface. This softens up the inside so you can easily squeeze out the juice by hand - no need to carry a juicer. Put the juice into ice trays and freeze them overnight. After you have frozen the cubes take them out of the ice trays. I release the cubes onto a Styrofoam plate then use it like a funnel to get them into the resealable freezer bags. Now just put them back in your RV freezer for future use. This allows you to have more compact storage space in your RV freezer and it keeps frost from accumulating on the cubes. Now you can enjoy a nice cold lemonade on one of those hot and toasty Arizona February afternoons. Jim