From the January 2016 Edition of In The Loop Magazine
Ingredients:
- 4 cups Vodka
- 1/2 cup Lemon rind strips, making sure to cut peel, try to illuminate as much as you can of the peel, removing the pith (Approximately 7 lemons)
- 3 cups Water
- 1 1/2 cups Sugar
Directions:
- Combine vodka and rind in a glass container and seal with a lid.
- Let sit for two weeks in room temperature.
- Remove rinds from mixture.
- Combine water and sugar in large pot.
- Bring to a soft boil, stirring occasionally, making a simple syrup.
- Remove from heat. Cool completely.
- Add simple syrup to vodka.
- Pour into sterile glass containers.
- Refrigerate.
Enjoy your Limoncello within a one-year period. Double, triple the recipe. Outstanding dessert, serve over lemon sorbet top with a sprig of mint.
Note: Meyer, Ponderosa, Eureka & Lisbon lemons all great to use for my Limoncello recipe.