Limoncello - typical lemon liqueur ! ! !
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Some time ago I want to do unbeaten in the limoncello at all costs, to prove the difference between the limoncello bought and home-made, knowing well what you put to create.
The recipe per se is simple, the only thing is that there are many variants and for a person who has never done such a thing is not easy to navigate nose for a good outcome.
In my case, after having consulted cookbooks, I treasure the "recipe from the grandmother" in the sense that I went to see how the limocello ago, for years to tradition, from generation to generation.
So I did bring from Amalfi lemons nice, and I began my experiment. Ingredients:
doses to 2 litres of limoncello
-- 10 lemons (better if they come from South Australia)
-- 1 kg of sugar
-- 1 liter of alcohol at 95 °
-- 1 liter of water Preparation:
1) Sbucciate with a pelapatate lemons collecting flowers in a container. Pour one liter of alcohol at 95 degrees and close the container tightly, leaving the dough rest for 15 days in the dark.
From time to time smuovete the container holding it always strictly closed tightly.
At this stage alcohol take away all the color and scent from the peel of lemon, caricandosi of taste. 2) In the meantime we can prepare a syrup, lemons peeled ricaviamone juice, add 1 liter of water and sugar necessary and mixing together the ingredients to slow fire will generate a real syrup.
To understand the right density of the syrup can regolarci visually, when you bring to the boil a few minutes to addensarlo. With this procedure we are pastorizzando lemon juice, so as to keep it intact for the time necessary to the recipe.
Once formed leave the syrup cool, and put it in the refrigerator.
3) Upon expiry of 15 days of rest buccie lemon under alcohol is the time to unite, in a large container alcohol (with lemon buccie still inside) and syrup. Close the container and let stand another day. The union of these two compounds in amalgam flavor in those 24 hours, in addition to conservation that creates maximum alcohol with its 95 ° 4) Prepare a funnel covered with a gauze and bottles that have a total capacity of 2 litres of limoncello. (I am able to fill 3 bottles, 2 by 1 / 2 and one liter). Past the stage of filtering, filtered carefully limoncello in bottles thanks all'imbuto with gauze, the operation may be slow because the syrup is thick and lemon peel are imbued and retain liquid.
5) At this point you have before you your bottles of limoncello, but beware! are not ready.
Indeed, the limoncello needs a further period of rest and storage to be effective.
Keep at rest for at least 1 month, you can keep in the refrigerator that is at room temperature. How do I need:
Serving limoncello is a tradition accurate, it should be kept in a cool place, even in the refrigerator for those who like and served in small glasses small, spirits, frozen, held for hours in the cell of the freezer then to enhance the taste of liquor. Features:
Alcohol: by the proportion between 1 liter of alcohol, lemon juice and 1 liter of water, with this recipe you reach a limoncello at 45 °, if you want to do it lighter, just dilute it by adding water, and calculate the degree of alcohol obtained, depending on the tastes. Perfume: The scent is something really shocking! I was accustomed to Limoncè that as good ... but super diluted, and this also concerned perfume will suffer. A kind of limoncello will have a strong scent, inebrianrte, loading from the first meeting.
Taste: a decided taste, strong, delicious for those who appreciate the spirits and the particular flavor of limoncello. Color: limocello home-made beats 2-0 Color bought that, either because respecting the time of preparation let the "real" lemons leave the pigment and flavor, either because it is less concetrato of commercial formulas, but one thing is sure, the color is rich, a gust of lemons that envelops the view, a pleasure entirely different. Conclusion:
Certainly it's easy to do, but as I said before it takes time, and very often if you do not have preferred to offer their guests something that you retrieve the fly in any grocery store.
Council still trying experience of doing for once at least limoncello, in my opinion has something spectacular.
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