I like to drink flavoured water with my meals. Sometimes I drink Adrian’s apple juice water. Sometimes that’s too sweet for me, so I make lemon-flavoured water for myself.

Observations:

One lemon can power a whole lot of water. Almost like perpetual stew: when the water runs low, I fill the carafe up with more, on top of the existing lemon slices. After a while the lemon starts dissolving, with individual cells floating around in the water, and that just makes it taste even better. It doesn’t last forever, though – after a while it loses its flavour.

Lemon slices make better drinking water than lime. Lime can initially taste nice but becomes bitter quite soon.

The peel also makes the water bitter. I cut off the peel and the pith from my lemons before using them for this. With luck I run across a recipe that calls for lemon peel but no lemon juice, so the peel goes in the food and then I only need to throw out the pith.