ISO refreshment: Ideal candidate must be sweet, complex, nuanced

I love getting those tasty little glass bottles of lemonade from the grocery store but I find that the packaged -ade doesn't pack enough umph for my tastes.  Solution, prepare my own lemon concoction that will stand up to cocktailing and the making of virgin drinks.

-Ingredients-

  

-Directions-

1. Zest Grapefruit and Lemons reserve the fruit

2. Muddle Zest w/ sugar to release oils, cover, let sit an hour or as long as overnight (This mixture is referred to as an Oleo Saccharum literally meaning sugar oil)

3. Juice the reserved Grapefruit and Lemons; add juice to the Oleo Saccharum

4. Stir until sugar is dissolved

5. Strain the syrup into container and add 1/2 cup water

Makes about 1 liter of syrup

Drink ideas to come.

-Jon