Homemade fruit syrup recipe ingredients:
- 7 oz (200 g) fresh peppermint leaves
- 13.2 cups (3 l ) water
- 4 lemons
- 4.4 lb (2 kg) sugar
Mint simple syrup recipe instructions:
Boil water and cool it.
In the meantime wash the peppermint leaves and chop them. Pour cooled water and juice from 4 lemons over them and let it stand for 24 hours.
Strain peppermint through a fine strainer and stir sugar in the mint juice. Let it stand for another 24 hours and stir it periodically.
Pour your homemade peppermint syrup in cleaned syrup bottles and keep them in the refrigerator.