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Old Fashioned Lemonade Juice of 4 very large lemons 1/2-2/3 cups sugar (or more to taste) 1 quart water Mix all the ingredients and pour over ice in tall glass. Garnish with lemon slices and mint. You can drop a few lemon slices into the lemonade pitcher for appearance and flavor. Honey Strawberry Lemonade Follow the above recipe then add the following: In a saucepan, combine 1-cup water, three sliced strawberries, 1/4-cup superfine sugar and 1-teaspoon honey. Bring to a boil, and simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool to room temperature, cover and chill. Mix with lemonade. Brownies 2 sticks butter 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 eggs beaten 4 squares chocolate 1 cup flour 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup pecans (optional) Melt butter and chocolate in top of double boiler or in a glass dish in the microwave. Add remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly. Pour into a 13-by-9 inch greased and floured baking pan. Bake at 325 degrees about 35 minutes. This is a soft, fudge–like brownie. ENTERTAINING | by alacia rhame Gabrielle and Mimi Rader, Shorter McCook and Lila McCord look forward to summer. That's when these young entrepreneurs start their annual summer business, an old- fashioned lemonade stand. Just like in the good old days, the girls set up a table on the street in their north Macon neighborhood. They add bright yellow Japanese lanterns to the magnolia tree near the stand and hand-lettered signs proclaiming "Lemonade For Sale." For five years the girls have either helped an older sibling or operated the business on their own. Last summer they donated all the money to a charity, so they added a sign that read "Lemonade for Charity." Lila McCook even took the lemonade business idea with her to Fripp Island for her spring break this year with her family, and when the weather turned cold, she added hot chocolate to her roadside stand at the beach. This year, the quartet added home-baked cookies packaged in yellow cellophane bags to their menu, and for a dollar, customers purchase a cup of lemonade and three cookies. It's a deal, except if you only have a $5 or a $10 bill in your wallet. "We don't make change," said the girls. So, be prepared to donate to their cause, if you don't have correct change. Homemade lemonade and easy cookies to bake are wonderful ways to entertain children in the summer, even if a lemonade stand and the profits of entrepreneurship are not in the equation. The following recipes may require adult supervision, but not much! LEMONADE FOR SALE 104 l MACON MAGAZINE JUNE/JULY 2013 photography by danny gilleland