Homemade Lemonade

Something Alex has been doing lately is making lemonade. And OMG it's good. I think it's something from like the 1930s or thereabouts, but yeah. So easy, so good, and like with everything you make from scratch, you control what's in it.

1 cup sugar
1 cup water
5 whole cloves
1/3 of a cinnamon stick
2 tbsp zested lemon rind
1 cup lemon juice

1. In a pot, put all ingredients except for the lemon juice. Bring it to a boil and boil down about half.

2. Add the lemon juice, boil down again, this time about one quarter.

3. Strain and then let cool.

4. Pour yourself a glass of ginger ale (or water) with some ice. Add 2 tbsp of the syrup to the glass, stir and enjoy!

*The picture has the syrup itself, and what it looks like in a glass of ginger ale, which is my preferred way of drinking it.