This drink I used to have a lot when I worked in Italy. I didn't realise that you could make it yourself until a friend told me that his parents make their own. It is perfect on a summer's evening after a busy day & it would make a great gift.
I would use un-waxed organic lemons. I bet some of you have your own lemon trees...............Hmmmm! (mine is only 8 inches tall). JEALOUSY is a terrible thing............
Having made your limoncello give my recipe in "GREAT DESERTS DISHES" post #7 a try! (Sorry I don't know how to link)
[edited to include other liqueurs & cordials etc.]
OK this is too wierd for words my friend just yesterday gave me some fresh picked lemons from his trip to Fresno and I just this morning read through pages of a thread on a cooking board I belong to about making this drink ..I have made it before but wanted to refine my technique!
seriously I just spent a couple of hours reading and then came here and found this ..how funny
great minds!!!!
this is one of my favorite drinks and I had considered starting a thread on making cordials here!
how funny!!!!
and so good! it is wonderful in iced tea! but i love it on the rocks with an extra squeeze of lemon
my batch starts tomorrow ..this is really wierd you know! lemons yesterday reading about the process and voila a thread is started by Hattie!!!!
Great minds think alike. I always want lemony things in summer but it is a strange coincidence that you were checking a recipe for it at the same time. I make a lot of cordials, liqueurs & ratafias etc. Have you ever made green walnut liqueur? I have only made it once after I picked green walnuts in California & carried them back to the UK. They are nearly impossible to get here. This year I intend to make Mulberry Ratafia if my mulberry tree crops well. I have a good lot of elder-flowers on my trees but it's raining here or I would have made the cordial today. You have to pick them when they are dry otherwise they seem to taste different/not so good!
I can see this summer is going to be very busy!
wifezilla
I think limes would make an interesting version --- GO FOR IT........!!
we should start a thread of cordials, liqueurs & ratafias for sure then I have also made them since I figured out how!
I have not made green walnut liqueur but do love it so I should try there are walnut trees near me that are free for the grabbing do you know when I can pick them for the liqueur?
and the mulberries I never thought to make a drink out of them I always dry them to use in Persian recipes
I am going to make a rhubarb cordial, some blackberry of course and some herbal infusions
I get a little crazy with the booze
when I see Everclear or Absolute 100proof on sale I stock up and people really look at my cart
I figure let them look! if they knew what I was doing the jeasousy would ensue!
Hi there! 
(Sorry I don't know how to link)
(Espcially citris!)
Can't wait!
"Under The Tuscan Sun" and was just wandering about this drink. 
