Heidi's Limoncello

From the January 2016 Edition of In The Loop Magazine

Ingredients:

1. 4 cups Vodka

2. 1/2 cup Lemon rind strips, making sure to cut peel, try to illuminate as much as you can of the peel, removing the pith (Approximately 7 lemons)

3. 3 cups Water

4. 1 1/2 cups Sugar

Directions:

1. Combine vodka and rind in a glass container and seal with a lid.

2. Let sit for two weeks in room temperature.

3. Remove rinds from mixture.

4. Combine water and sugar in large pot.

5. Bring to a soft boil, stirring occasionally, making a simple syrup.

6. Remove from heat. Cool completely.

7. Add simple syrup to vodka.

8. Pour into sterile glass containers.

9. Refrigerate.

Enjoy your Limoncello within a one-year period. Double, triple the recipe. Outstanding dessert, serve over lemon sorbet top with a sprig of mint.

Note: Meyer, Ponderosa, Eureka & Lisbon lemons all great to use for my Limoncello recipe.