make limoncello

It is wonderful! We sampled the wares today (mid afternoon, which made for a very productive rest of the day) and it was so smooth and lemony! Yay! Will bottle for gifts.

I pulled all the lemon peels out, strained the alcohol and made the syrup. It kinda looks like very clear pee. Above is a picture of the straining process. On the left is the strained and the right is the unstrained. The last part is adding the syrup after it cools and letting it sit for 40 days.

It’s been 2 months but the lemon peel is not breaking like it should. so, i am going to give it another week and see where it is at that point. . .

The lemon peel has been marinating in the liquor for a few weeks now. I made the mistake of taking a whiff of it and it nearly burned my eyebrows off. that stuff is highly flammable! I am looking forward to being able to try it next summer!

so, i bought the lemons a couple of weeks ago. i went to pick up the liquor and was carded at the store. the clerk looked at my license for a good two minutes. i realized she thought it wasn’t mine (with good reason) because my hair was long and blonde. i wore glasses. now, my hair is short and reddish and no more glasses. well, it also ended up that my license had been expired for 3 months. she wouldn’t sell me the liquor. it was hilarious. i ran into a friend of mine in the parking lot, told him the story. he asked me if i wanted him to buy me what i needed. i declined. i haven’t had to have someone buy me alcohol since i was in high school. i did kind of feel delinquent though!

I am going to do this over the summer for Christmas presents.

http://www.slowtrav.com/italy/notes/food/dh_limoncello.htm