On hot summer days, all you want is a refreshing cool drink. Perhaps a lemonade? Perhaps from the most famous person ever to endorse lemonade? We are, of course, talking about Beyoncé.
Queen Bey broke the internet back in 2016 when she released her iconic album of the same name, and the moniker has a sweet origin, given that it's linked to a recipe passed down to her from beloved grandmother Agnez Dereon.
Lemonade has metaphorical and familial significance in the album as it features Jay'z grandmother, Hattie, at her 90th birthday party saying, "I was served lemons, but I made lemonade", followed by Beyoncé sharing her own grandmother's recipe.
Clearly Beyoncé dotes on her grandmother who, as she reveals on the album, had a way of turning things into magic. The Grammy-award winning singer says on the album: "Grandmother, the alchemist. You spun gold out of this hard life. Conjured beauty from the things left behind. Found healing where it did not live. Discovered the antidote in your own kitchen. Broke the curse with your own two hands. You passed the instructions down to your daughter, who then passed it down to her daughter."
And it's easy to see why the recipe endured all these generations, given its simplicity.
For anyone wanting to make the Bey-endorsed drink, you'll need a few staple ingredients. She tells us: "Take one pint of water, add a half pound of sugar, the juice of 8 lemons and the zest of half a lemon. Pour the water from one jug into the other several times, strain through a clean napkin." And that's all that's required for that perfect summer drink.
As beloved as Agnez was to Beyoncé, the star never actually got to meet her grandmother who died before she was born. But the grandparent stayed close to Bey and her mum Tina Knowles, as the two were inspired to start a clothing line in Agnez's name, called House of Dereon (which has since closed).
Now clearly Blue Ivy is following in her mum's footsteps, sharing a close relationship with her own grandma Tina.
Topics: US Food
Faima Bakar