A few days ago a friend of mine returned from a trip to south Florida.  He was staying with another (mutual) friend who has a plethora of citrus trees on his property – everything from oranges to grapefruit to lemons.  Being the kind of guy he is (and also in hopes that I’d make lemon [...]

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I’ve always been interested in making these, but never gotten around to it.  If nothing else, it takes the juice of a LOT of lemons, in addition to the lemons that are cut up in the jar.  Earlier this week, though, I bought a 5lb bag of lemons with the idea of making homemade limoncello [...]

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