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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!!!

That sounds good.

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

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updated Monday 28th April at 11.50hrs

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

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.

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

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

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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

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!)

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most important thing FREEZE IT FOR AT LEAST 4 HOURS

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!

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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??

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?

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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.

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updated Monday 28th April at 11.50hrs

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!!!!

Mines just cooling had a sip though yum yum!!

Thats the stuff Nicos.

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updated Monday 28th April at 11.50hrs

Do you know what it is piglet?? Other than alcohol?? - what's it made from??grain/spuds/rice?????
Can you actually add it to a punch instead of gin or vodka??
I didn't end up using mine cos the boiler repair man said we should use calvados, anything else would be a crime
I wonder if it would make a lemoncello??

Just wanted to let you know that the lemoncello is wonderful!
I'll certainly be making a few more bottles in the very near future.
Only downside is that it's not using any of my homegrown produce...but then again- who cares- it's lovely!!

Thanks for sharing the recipe with us klmgardening!!

Really glad you liked it I am now making it for everyone(those too lazy sorry busy to do it themselves) what I really need is a receipe that can turn corguettes into alcohol as I have got hundreds of them HELP

Just back from 2 weeks in Sorrento. Had Limoncello there and will def try the home made version.

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Nicos, I make a pukka 80 Limoncello recipe (from Sorento) and you can use either alcohol or vodka although the alcohol is more traditional. I think its grain based and is grand in punches or anything else to be honest. At 10 euros a litre its much cheaper than vodka.

I now only have 20 days to wait for my next batch to finish.

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updated Monday 28th April at 11.50hrs

Good job I brought 3 litres of the alcohol for friut back with me then eh??? Thanks...will give it a go!
Do you use the same recipe??

Can't you buy the preserving alchohol at the chemists in this country at a reasonable price then?

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Don't think it's the same Snadge.
What they have in France is a grain alcohol which has no flavour.
The stuff I bought in France is called 'Alcool special pour Fruits Spiritueux'
It is 40% proof and comes in 1 litre bottles, costing E10 a litre.
I have one bottle which was given me from a different source and it is 38% proof and lists its contents as Eau ( water) and Alcool Ethylique ( if that means anything to you chemists out there?????)
What is the stuff you can buy at chemists then???? Is this the same thing????