Recipe Limoncello

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To prepare an excellent limoncello, you need a lot of patience. The maceration of lemon peels has quite long times ranging from two to three months.

The ingredients to prepare the limoncello are:

Peel of 8 lemons
1 liter of alcohol at 95 °
1 liter of water
700 grams of sugar

The processing includes two phases.

• The lemons are washed well and peeled.
• 700 ml of alcohol are poured into a jug and the skins are put in and left to macerate for a month in a dark and dry place. After this time, the alcohol takes on a straw yellow color.
• The water is heated with the sugar without bringing to a boil and the obtained syrup is allowed to cool. Once cold, pour it into the jug adding the remaining 300 ml of alcohol.
• After another 40 days, the liqueur is filtered to remove the lemon peels.

Limoncello is ready to be consumed.