In Progress Projects: Limoncello Recipe

I’ve been wanting to try a limoncello recipe for a long time. I don’t know if I’d like it at all, but I’m giving it a shot, since gifting season is coming and I wanted to have a diverse, colorful list of “nom nom noms” to give at the holidays. Here’s how I made mine…

• Buy insanely large hermetic storage jar from Container Store (I now own three).
• Buy giant bag of lemons and another giant bottle of cheap vodka from Costco, thus ensuring my reputation as total drunk at my local Costco store (I’m beginning to think I worry far too much about what they think).

• Chop lemons and throw them in the jar.

• Pour vodka in jar.
• Close the jar.

• Do the hokey pokey and shake it all about.
• Put it in the pantry and wait.

There’s more, but that’s to come, and why should you have to wait until my limoncello’s done to start yours?! Full recipe’s below.

What I learned in the making:

• Buy small lemons, not these crazy-big things I bought. Also, you should probably use lemons with thinner skins, but these seem to be doing okay.
• The recipe here calls for 750-ml bottle of booze. You can use cheap vodka like I did or use some kind of grain alcohol. I made way more than I meant to, and chopped up far too many lemons before I realized that 750 ml wasn’t going to be enough to cover the lemons, so I had to use all of my giant bottle from Costco. So…use small lemons.