Using up lemons - hate waste!

[contadina]

It's the same in Italy. One of our neighbours almost choked on our homemade cider when contadino was telling him about the preservativo ingredient.

[hamster]

It's the same in Italy. One of our neighbours almost choked on our homemade cider when contadino was telling him about the preservativo ingredient.

[Berti]

I tried the limoncello recipe but found out I was 20 grams sugar short.
Substituted brown sugar for the 20 grams.
I guess it won't make a whole lot of a difference except a slightly darker limoncello?

now how long should I store it before drinking?

[magnuscanis]

How do you make lemon cordial - and can you do it with limes?

Surely that would be lime cordial.

I've not tried making either, but I would guess you could probably use pretty much the same recipe and just vary the fruit. If so, a mixed lemon and lime cordial should also be possible.

I have one rather dessicated looking lemon that needs using up soon. Probably not enough to make a cordial (or much else) on its own.

- Magnus

[contadina]

Did you do the week or month recipe Berti? One thing that I can't remember if I wrote is that you should give it a shake every day for a week if you are dong the one-month recipe. I'll edit the original post if I forgot this.

[Berti]

the one month recipe. I also noticed that the syrup was not mentioned to be added to the alcohol but I added both at once to the peels.

one thing I regret is that you have the peels of the lemons and then have ten lemons sitting and don't know what to do with it.
I squeezed most and put them in an icecube tray to freeze to add to drinks/ dishes where needed.

berti

[Milims]

We recently came across lots of bags of lemons reduced to 12 pence in the super market, so we bought them with the intention of making lemon marmalade - but it all went wonkey! Try as we might we couldn't make the damn stuff set. So I fished out the lemons, spread them on a tray and put them into a low oven and make crystalised lemons - which are great in cakes. Then I put the syrup into jars and it makes great lemon chicken, the drizzle stuff for the top of my lemon cakes and is pretty good with a slug of vodka in it!! Not such a disaster after all!

[contadina]

When the time is right Bertie, you should strain the limoncello (to get rid of the lemon peel) into bottles before drinking. i think that I may have drunk a little too much of the yellow stuff when I posted that recipe.

I know what you mean by not wanting to waste the juice. I always make a batch of lemon squash that I can boil up in a waterbath so that it keeps for several months. It would seem that squash is a peculiarly English drink and anything similar seems to cost a fortune elsewhere.