Limoncello

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 6 lemons, depending on size. / untreated
• 1 liter of alcohol, 95% or 96%
• 1 ¼ liters of water
• 400 g sugar

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour

Lemon liqueur. Recipe from Ischia

I take unsprayed lemons. I peel them very thinly, leaving just enough white inner peel. Then I take 1 liter of alcohol, pour it into an even larger bottle (it can be a 1.5-liter water bottle), and add the peels. After about 10 days, you can pour it through a sieve. Then I briefly boil 1.25-1.5 liters of water with 400-500 g of sugar (to taste) until the sugar dissolves. The sugar can be varied. I use 400 g. Once the sugar solution has cooled, mix it with the lemon alcohol. It tastes best ice-cold. I make lemon marmalade with the rest of the lemons.