lemoncello

[klmgardening]

After reading your rose vodka recipe I thought I would give you all my fantastic Lemoncello recipe All you need is 8 lemons(unwaxed) 8 ounces caster sugar and a bottle of supermarkets own brand vodka. Zest and juice all the lemons, in a saucepan add about an 8th of the vodka and the sugar slowly warm until the sugar has disolved. take of the heat add the juice and zest and the rest of the vodka, let it go cold then sieve back into vodka bottle (should make about 1 and a half bottles) put in the freezer for a couple of hours and voila drink. be very careful as 4 of us managed to drink a bottle in less than half an hour OH the pain!!!

[pigletwillie]

That sounds good.

In some recipes dont you have the lemons sitting in the alcohol to take on the colour of the lemons?

[Nicos]

Sounds lovely!
Do you mean a 1 litre bottle of vodka??

[klmgardening]

Believe it or not after you leave the lemon juice and zest in whilst it cools it goes a lovely yellow colour, you only need a normal 70 cl bottle of vodka as the juice makes it up to a bottle and half. This weekend I am doing 6 bottles for a friends barbeque so the house will smell yummy, all I need for next year is a couple of lemon trees happy days.

[SimonCole]

That's a fab idea!
I'm normally a bit reluctant with liqueurs and the like, but this one is just the ticket for a camping party tomorrow!
Thanks

[bubblewrap]

Unwaxed lemons ? are they hairy???
Had lemons fresh off a tree in Crete wonderful iin a G & T.

[Heidi]

On a holiday on the Amalfi Coast, i watched a demonstration of how they make real limoncello.

I don't remember them using the juice of the lemons, just the peel, but then they also have the pure alcohol to use as well

Lovely stuff - i bought some back and had it at our wedding after the dinner

[Flummery]

My daughter loves this stuff - never tried it but I'm willing to have a go at most things (except incest and folk dancing as the man said!)

[klmgardening]

most important thing FREEZE IT FOR AT LEAST 4 HOURS

[bubblewrap]

I have had creten Raki(hydrometer sinks in it) lemon strait off the tree,tyme honey & hot water Mmmmmm
PS good Raki does non freeze!

[Nicos]

I'm going to make the lemoncello today, but just wondered how long it keeps?
( If I can hide it from the household!!)
I'm presuming at least a year ( Xmas pressies in mind) and that it only needs to be in the freezer for drinking, and can be stored in a dark cupboard??

[moggssue]

In my house lemoncello never gets a chance to last, it disappears as fast as I can make it! But yes, I'd say it would last a few months if you can keep it under wraps, maybe longer if you do freeze it?

[pigletwillie]

If you put it in clean jars Nicos it will last indefinitely, just as sloe gin and the like do.

I have just started a pukka Italian 80 day recipe and after 1 day of the peel being in the vodka it went a fab acid yellow colour. We are off to France soon and will be bringing proper alcohol back ready for the next batch.

[Nicos]

What do you mean 'proper ' alcohol piglet??
I had a scoot around Leclerc and asked a local yokel with a healthy looking drinkers nose what I should put my cherries in to make a liquor and he picked out a bottle of clear 'Alcohol for fruit preservation'.
Is this what you mean??
I had wondered if he would have just as happily pointed at paint stripper...until I realized it was 10 euros a litre.
If this is what you mean- what exactly is it???
Anyone else know??

My lemoncello is now in the freezer and should be ready by 6pm tonight!! Good timing or what??
I must have used slightly smaller lemons as it just made up one litre- so I poured it back into the litre bottle I'd just used it from ( having topped up my rhubarb schnapps with the left over 30cl.
Excited now!!!!

[ugly gourd]

Mines just cooling had a sip though yum yum!!