The smell of roasted turkey legs in the air mingles with the slight aroma of barn animals. The heat from the pavement tickles your hands with each step. Kids laugh around you. It is officially fair time and arguably the best part of summer! From June to early September, county and state fairs call dibs on your weekends.

With the fairs comes the best part in the heat of summer-- a refreshing glass of equally sweet and bitter fair lemonade. One sip is the taste of summer. Welcome the fair into your home by opening a window and making yourself a fair lemonade!

The Farmwife Feeds shares her recipe for the infamous drink, the one she calls a "County Fair Lemon Shake-Up."

Photo courtesy www.farmwifefeeds.com.

Gather:

  • A quart-sized Mason jar with a lid
  • A wooden spoon or equivalent for muddling
  • 1 whole lemon
  • 1/4 cup of sugar
  • Ice (amount is to preference)
  • Water

Recipe:

  1. Wash your lemon to prep
  2. Cut your lemon into quarters
  3. Pour 1/4 cup of sugar into the bottom of your Mason jar
  4. Add your cut lemon on top
  5. Muddle and mash the sugar and lemon together
  6. Fill with ice and water, leaving an inch at the top for shaking
  7. Place lid on and shake
  8. SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE!
  9. After the sugar is mostly dissolved, take the lid off and add a lemon slice as garnish
  10. You're ready to enjoy your wonderfully sweet and tart goodness!

Jennifer Campbell is the face behind The Farmwife Feeds. Her name is fitting as a wife, mom to three adults, and farmer in central Indiana.

"Farmwife Feeds is my little space to share farm life and home-cooked recipes, from my soul to yours. These are the recipes I cook that my family eats," Jennifer shared.

Check out more of her recipes here!

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