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going to show you how to bottle up
summer we are going to be making fresh
limoncello
what better way to wrap up summer than
by making a delicious bottle of
limoncello the epitome of summer in
Italy just that bottled lemon liqueur
um absolutely one of my favorite things
and then you can stash it in the freezer
and you can always have a little sip
uh throughout those colder months when
you're just missing that warmer weather
so
the big things that we're gonna need for
limoncello and it's really important to
use
organic lemons and the reason why you
have to use organic lemons is because
the element that we're really going to
be pulling off of it is the lemon peel
and certainly that's going to be the
part that takes on the most pesticides
the most chemicals things like that so
again that's why you really want to
spring for the organic lemons especially
because we're not using much else in
this
otherwise we're going to also need some
95 percent
grain alcohol you can find that at the
liquor store and we're also going to be
using some sugar and water
a little later in this but for our
lemons
we need about 10 lemons and again we're
really just taking the peel
and i just have two mason jars here that
we're going to
set this all up in and you can just take
your vegetable peeler
and go right down the side of the lemon
so again we're really looking
to just get the peel so you want to try
to leave as much as the pith on the
lemon the pith as the white part
as possible and we're just going to put
these peels into our jars
and once i get all my lemons peeled
we're going to cover them with that
grain alcohol
so we have all of our lemons peeled
those extra the actual lemons just set
aside you can make lemonade with them
you can make lemon chicken with them
but certainly don't throw them out and
then our lemon peels i have
in two mason jars that i have tight
fitting lids for
and we are gonna put that grain alcohol
right on top of them
so again about 50 50 split so this is a
liter
and then we're going to seal these up
and these are just going to hang out on
the counter top for at least
two weeks
once our lemon peels have been sitting
with that grain alcohol for about two
weeks now we're gonna put our limoncello
together so i've got four and a quarter
cups of water
and to that i'm going to add two and a
half cups of sugar and just let this
simmer till our sugar melts and becomes
a nice
simple syrup then we're gonna let this
cool completely
to our simple syrup we're gonna add that
grain alcohol that's been infused with
the lemon peels we strained the lemon
peels out of here
we'll just get this well mixed and
bottled up
store your limoncello in an airtight
container in the freezer it's going to
last you a nice
long time you can enjoy a little bit
after dinner all through the season
guys i hope you enjoy this recipe and
your labor day weekend of course be safe
and responsible
i will see you guys next time you can
find the recipe at caradifalco.com you
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