Step 1

Gather your ingredients.

Step 2

Peel 1 lemon with a vegetable peeler and reserve the peels.

Step 3

Make our homemade simple syrup recipe, adding the peels from 1 lemon during the cooking process.

Step 4

Once sugar has dissolved, let the lemon simple syrup cool slightly until warm.

Step 5

Juice all but 2 lemons, cutting those 2 into wheels.

Step 6

Pour warm simple syrup over the sliced lemons in a large carafe or punch bowl.

Step 7

Then, add lemon juice.

Step 8

Then, add cold water.

Step 9

Add a pinch of salt and stir to combine. Serve over ice and enjoy!