Homemade Lemon Extract
Source of Recipe
David
List of Ingredients
Homemade Lemon Extract (they call it Lemon Aperritif)
4 or 5 lemons, pick really fresh nice ones, cut in quarters
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups vodkaRecipe
Soak the whole lemons in very hot water for 10 minutes.
Dry and cut inquarters, over a bowl or plate to catch the juice. Put the quarters into a wide mouth canning jar. Simmer the vodka and the sugar
in a sauce pan for a few minutes. Pour hot vodka/sugar mixture over the lemons.
Use a long thin knife to loosen any trapped air bubbles in and around the lemons. Put lid on jar. Put jar in refrigerator for 4 to 6 weeks. Use in cakes, fruit salad, salad dressing, etc.
Now, the original recipe says to use a vanilla bean, cut in half lengthwise.
To push it down into the jar after you have poured on the vodka/sugar mixture. I did that the first time I made this and will never do it again.
It is much better, in my opinion, without the vanilla bean.
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