Limoncello recipe

It Looks like on the web there’s no English version of the Limoncello recipe, so since it’s easy to prepare, here the translation. (Beer is good but traditional south Italy liquor…)

In order to make one and a half litres of Limoncello you need these ingredients:
- 10 medium size organic lemons
- 1 litre of pure alcohol at 90°
- 400 grams of sugar
- half a litre of water

Wash the lemons well. Peel them and separate the zest (the yellow bits) from the pith (the white bits). Be extremely careful not to cut the white part as they become extremely bitter. Put all the zest on a chopping block and cut them into small pieces.

Put the lemon zest in an airtight glass jar, add the litre of alcohol, close it and wait for 15 days…

After 15 days, prepare the sugar and water syrup. Combine the sugar and water together in a small pot, heating gently until the sugar is dissolved. Once the sugar has dissolved, allow the syrup to cool.

Now add the sugar syrup to the alcohol and lemon zest mixture, stirring well. Pour this new mixture into a new jar, filtering it using a funnel coated with gauze or filter paper. Repeat this operation another time, this time squeezing the rest of lemon zest.

Thanks to Pat for the help with the translation (Pat became a Limoncello drinker after xp2007 and I am not helping him to quit with this…)