Comments on: Lime-cello Test

By: daveed

daveed — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:44:39 +0000

I have access currently (Aug. 2010) to a good sized acreage of Meyer Lemons, organically-grown (but not certified). I estimate between 40,000-60,000 lemons on the tree right now. We won’t be marketing them conventionally. Anybody want to go big?

Daveed

By: brad

brad — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:56:46 +0000

What kind of oranges did you use? I have made it several times with navel oranges and it worked beautifully. I used 5 navel oranges for a fifth of Smirnoff. and zest them with a microplane rasp making sure to get no pith.

Alternatives I have tried that work well are 4 navel oranges and 1 blood orange and I substituted the juice of the blood orange for part of the water in the syrup. You can use the zest of 2 large grapefruit or one large and its juice as a substitute, i prefer Ruby Red fruits for this. I have also done this with 1.5L of vodka and a pound of key limes using the juice of all of them in place of water with 50% more sugar.

Mixes that work well: Lemon and Lime, substitute two limes for one lemon or four for two lemons, but only 1 to 1 after that. Lemon Tangerine substitute 3 tangerines for the first lemon, two each for the second and third and 1 for 1 for any other substitutions. Orange grapefruit substitute 1 grapefruit for two oranges 25% more sugar to the syrup. You can also add two limes to that mix. Assuming you can find them you can make yuzu-cello using ten yuzu fruit per fifth.

Note: I use vodka, because drive 150 miles out of state to get grain alcohol doesn’t appeal to me.

By: Mohammad Murphy

Mohammad Murphy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:09:52 +0000

we always use grapefruit on our dessert and this is a fruit that is full of antioxidants too.::;

By: Arianna Torres

Arianna Torres — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:09:45 +0000

my girlfriend has a grape fruit plantation in their backyard and we always taste some of the harvest.,`”

By: paula

paula — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:32:32 +0000

A friend of mine makes “mandarinetto”, which is limoncello made with mandarins. It is absolutely delicious! The other day I also tried one he made using a mix of lemons and oranges which was also lovely. I’m lucky enough to live in Italy, and he’s lucky enough to have a citrus grove in the back garden though.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:49:14 +0000

Why do you have to filter the vodka, if most vodkas out there are 5 times distilled?

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:00:28 +0000

For the vodka, I just run it through a Brita filter pitcher 5 times, pouring it from the Brita pitcher into a regular pitcher and then back into the Brita until finished. For the final filtration, I pour the infusion through a permanent coffee filter once to remove all the zest. Then I put disposable coffee filters inside the permanent filter one at a time and pour the limoncello through. I put the permanent filter in a funnel so it all goes where I want. Once the batch is filtered like that once, I do it a second time, then I pour through the permanent filter when filling the bottles.

By: scott

scott — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:15:16 +0000

Could you describe in a little more detail the filtering process of the vodka and the final product? Thanks, Scott

By: paul g

paul g — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:08:21 +0000

i’m wondering if you’ve ever tried, or heard of anyone trying, grapefruit?