Limoncello

What is Limoncello

Limoncello is the popular liqueur of lemons is born in the 19th century in a little house in Capri Blue Island created by Maria Antonia Farace. The name of Limoncello become famous all over the world in a few time just up to the year 1988 when it was occurred the registration of the mark.
There are many legends about the birth of Limoncello, someone even supports it was used by the farmers and fishermans early in the morning against the cold.
Today we can find this special drink everywhere, in fact to protect the product against the imitations, they’ve initialled the lemons from Penisola Sorrentina as PGI (Protect Geographic Indication).

To make Limoncello at home, the main ingredient is the lemon of course. It should be elliptical in shape, in medium or big size with an intense yellow peel rich of essential oils.

The preparation is simple but it is required the patience to make it step by step. If you follow the procedure in a few months you will taste your handmade Limoncello to enrich your cakes and as dressing for the fruit salads or you can just get it at the end of the meals as digestive.

LIMONCELLO RECEPTY (how to make Limoncello at Home)

10 lemons big-medium size – It’s advised to use lemons from Sorrento
1,2 kg of sugar
1 lt and half of water
1 lt of pure alcool 95° – It’s advised an high quality of alcool
Well, as begin you should take some lemons originary from Penisola Sorrentina and wash them in warm water.
After the cleaning up, you have to peel the yellow skin with a potato peeler paying attention to leave the white part of skin with a bitter aftertaste.
Subsequently, you should cut the skin in thiny strips. After that you have to put the lemon stripes in a sterile glass container with about 750 ml of high quality alcohol. You have to preserve the stoppered bottle in a dark and fresh place up one month. You should shake the bottles once daily.
After the first month, you should prepare a special syrup with water and white sugar and and let it allow to cool.
Then, you should mix the last 250 ml of alcohol with the syrup you’ve prepared before. After, you have to mix everything with the lemon stripes in the glass container where they were in infusion.
At the end, you should filter everything with a sterile gauze and put it into the bottles. Finally you have to put Limoncello in your freezer and please, TASTE and SHARE.

Limoncello Tour

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Giacomo Di Nocera

Italian businessman, operating in the tourism sector in Sorrento form more than 15 years, owner of Di Nocera Service and Sorrento Luggage.
Passionate about soccer and sailing, he loves to go around the Amalfi Coast by his motorbike.
He also writes articles about news, tips and tour ideas on this blog!