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Contents 1 DIY Limoncello Overview 2 Limoncello Ingredients 3 Limoncello Equipment 4 DIY Lemoncello Recipe 5 Making Your Own Limoncello

DIY Limoncello Overview

Limoncello is a lemon liqueur, originally produced in Southern Italy. It's served as an apertif, but also used in cocktails and deserts.

Limoncello Ingredients

• Lemon peels. Be sure to use organic lemons to make sure pesticides don't make their way in.
• Sugar.
• Alcohol. Grain alcohol or vodka work. 100 - 150 proof.
• Water.

Limoncello Equipment

• Zester. A microplane works best. Like this though a vegetable peeler can be used instead.
• Funnel. Like this.
• Swing-top glass bottles like these.

DIY Lemoncello Recipe

• 10 lemons, 3 cups of water, and 3 cups of sugar per bottle of vodka. (750ml)

Making Your Own Limoncello

1. Zest the lemons. Avoid pith entirely (adds unwanted bitterness).
2. Steep the lemons in the vodka for one week to a month and a half. (Dark, cool place.)
3. Boil water and sugar until dissolved into a simple syrup.
4. Cool simple syrup.
5. Pour simple syrup over steeped vodka.
6. Wait one week to a month and a half. (Dark, cool place).
7. Strain out lemon peels (using mesh strainer if you used a vegetable peeler, or coffee filters if you used a microplane) and store in refrigerator/freezer.