You don’t have to use your best drinking vodka, but do settle for a good quality bottle. So for the sake of your sanity, have a full bottle of vodka ready. I started with 2 Cups of vodka, but ended up using the entire 750 ml bottle, much to the dismay of my husband □ It all depends on how much lemon peel and what quantity of lemon juice the batch of lemons throw up. The problem with this recipe is that one cannot make out beforehand, the quantities of vodka needed. The entire team efforts made such a deadly Limoncello, that our man Rajesh (as seen above) finished my bottle! :O Five holes in its stainless steel head to remove the zest from the pith of citrus fruits easily. But the big part, played by the sugar and lemon juice is from the family diaries of my great friends – The Bathija’s. The recipe I have used is partly from the internet. With a vegetable peeler, remove only the yellow rind, leaving the pith intact. And the Grand Pappy and GrandMommy sitting and shouting instructions, and tasting the Limoncello till their offsprings have got it right! Another lot, juicing the lemons, to make the lemon and sugar syrup. At least I visualise it that way! The Daddy’s and Mommies, hunkered down at their huge tables, with the spring season – well! – springing outside, peeling away industriously at lemons, and emptying jugs of vodka over the peels. Each has a family secret, and hidden in the sheds they concoct their heirloom recipes. I was fighting my inner demons trying to decide what to drink – a classic glass of Tuscan Red Wine, according to me the best in the world, or a super cool Tuscan Limoncello.Įvery little and big family make their own Limoncello. Limoncello always gives me visions of my visit to Italy – the Tuscan coast.
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