Limecello

roued — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:09:57 +0000

A little update on the liqueur making project.
After I made the really nice blackberry liquor I went a bit crazy and made gooseberry, black current and red current liqueurs after the same recipe but adjusted a bit. I felt that there was maybe too much sugar and too much vodka in the previous liqueurs so I decided to add more water to these new ones. Of course this meant that when I went to taste them before Christmas they had all gone very very bad and I had to throw a lot of good work down the drain.

So now I have decided to stick to the original Lemoncello recipe. Unfortunately, I could not get hold of un-waxed organic lemons before Christmas so this batch is with limes instead. Smells good though!
Hope this works and I get a wonderful Limecello out of it.

Note: with the citric fruit liqueurs I have discovered that the longer they get to stand around for the better they become. Some of them taste really soapy until they are about a year old.

Lemoncello, orangecello and blackberry liqueur

roued — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:56:18 +0000

There is not a lot as nice as fruity liqueurs. I used to make fruit snaps with fruit and vodka alone, but then I found the recipe for lemoncello and it turned it all around.
First I tried to make some lemoncello and it worked OK, then I made a batch of orangecello. This was really nice and then when I found some blackberries in the garden I decided to try the same procedure and made some blackberry liqueur and it was beautiful.

Ingredients

Depending on the the type of fruit, peel either the skin of 3-4 citric fruits (no white stuff) and the juice of one of these or get a bowl full or berries
3/4 L of Vodka
1 L Water
200-250 g sugar

Process

Leave the fruit in the vodka for around 3-4 days
Boil the sugar and water to mix and let cool
Filter the two liquids together and leave around for a month or two before drinking it

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Limecello

Lemoncello, orangecello and blackberry liqueur