With summer in full swing and plenty of hot days ahead of us, now is the perfect time to get your fill of easy, tasty, super refreshing lemonade. Here at Parade, we're big fans of family recipes (like Martha Stewart’s family potato salad recipe) and we recently ran across another recipe that's been passed down through famous hands—Beyoncé's lemonade recipe that she got from her grandmother, Agnez Dereon.
There’s no celebrity more appropriate to share a family lemonade than Queen Bey. If you’re a Beyoncé fan, you’re likely already familiar with her connection with lemonade and grandmotherly wisdom. Beyoncé first shared the recipe for her grandmother’s lemonade with the world in 2016, when she dropped her instantly iconic revenge and redemption album, Lemonade.
On the album, there's a clip of Jay-Z’s grandmother, Hattie, at her 90th birthday party saying, “I was served lemons, but I made lemonade.” Later on, there’s a voiceover of Beyoncé reciting the recipe for her grandmother’s lemonade.
We love the idea of making a tall glass of refreshing lemonade to sweeten up even the sourest of days and what better recipe to use than Beyoncé's? Here's what you need to know.
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The beauty of Agnez Dereon’s lemonade recipe lies in its simplicity. It’s the perfect expression of the simplest ingredients turning into something delicious and refreshing. It's a reminder that it doesn’t take much to create joyful moments for ourselves, like savoring a glass of ice-cold lemonade on a scorching summer day.
For starters, we love the technique used for mixing the lemonade in this recipe. You pour the drink from one pitcher to another several times, which gets everything perfectly. This old-school method works like a charm and also provides a perfectly meditative kitchen moment.
And then there's the lemon zest. Using lemon zest in addition to lemon juice punches up the citrus flavor, which is something that's missing in a lot of overly sweet lemonade recipes.
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How to Make Beyoncé’s Lemonade
This recipe really is the definition of simplicity. As Beyoncé recites for us on the album, “Take one pint of water, add a half pound of sugar, the juice of 8 lemons and the zest of half a lemon. Pour the water from one jug into the other several times, strain through a clean napkin.” And that's all she wrote!
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The Legacy of Lemonade
Beyoncé pays a powerful tribute to her grandmother while sharing her recipe on the album. We hear the singer speak these words, “Grandmother, the alchemist. You spun gold out of this hard life. Conjured beauty from the things left behind. Found healing where it did not live. Discovered the antidote in your own kitchen. Broke the curse with your own two hands. You passed the instructions down to your daughter, who then passed it down to her daughter.”
This is one of those instances where a recipe is so much more than just a recipe. It’s part of a legacy and we're so lucky that Beyoncé shared it with all of us.
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