Recommend me Limoncello

[weepiper]

It's the zest you want, not the fruit. And you need lots of sugar and to shake the bottle every day.

 

[Quartz]

Yes. I'm steeping the zest for a week in the vodka, and then I'll add the syrup. And I gave it its first shake this morning.

 

[Quartz]

The vodka is beginning to turn yellow.

 

[moonsi til]

I have never tried it but I do have a bottle that my niece re-gifted to me that I'm saving for the summer.

 

[Quartz]

The vodka doesn't seem to have yellowed much more.

 

[Greebo]

The vodka doesn't seem to have yellowed much more.

Does it smell any stronger?

 

[Quartz]

Does it smell any stronger?

Oh yes. It smells very strongly indeed of lemon.

 

[Quartz]

Just put in the sugar syrup. The lemon zest floated to the top but the whole doesn't look very yellow. Certainly not the rich yellow of the drink I had in Venice.

 

[Wolveryeti]

I can't stand limoncello, but if I was forced to make it, I wonder if a low-faff version could be contrived by dissolving lemon curd into a bottle of vodka...

 

[Quartz]

Well, it's ready to drink and very drinkable, but it's not as lemony as I was expecting.