Limoncello II

I used a potato peeler and peeled lemons and I used simple syrup instead of cooking sugar. The lazy mans way :)

This is a beautifully simple recipe that produced a wonderful aperitif. I used the Meyer lemons from my tree and grain alcohol, as the recipe advised. I let the lemon/alcohol steep for a week or two. Just wonderful!

This recipe makes: limoncello, or a lemon flavored vodka. Don't be expecting a mixed drink or something sweet, because it is not. It should be used just like any liqueur to basically make mixed drinks. Allrecipes, has 5-6 recipes to use limoncello in under the advanced search button. It tried a couple and it was fine that way. I made it just as is, but cut the recipe in half. It ended up as 4 lemons peeled. I used a potato peeler, as suggested by the first reviewer. That same person is also right (make sure to not get any of the white part of the rind. It is bitter). The rest, or half the recipe, equaled to 17.5 oz of vodka, 17.5 oz water, and 2 1/4 cups of sugar. I let it sit 3 days as suggested. I only had vanilla vodka, so I used that. I also found, today, it tastes good mixed in some 100% cranberry-pomengranite juice. I may also try it in some sparkling lemonade, as someone suggested. I just wish I would have known in advance that this was not sweet. It was a lot of work, to just make a lemon infused vodka. Interesting to learn though.