sailorette’s diary - a diary writen by a sailorette for her loved ones to read after returning safely home from sea

It really amazes me how much bad, commercial limoncello there is out there. Once you’ve made you’re own, there’s just no comparison. And it’s sooo easy to do.

This is the nuzzaci recipe, tweaked a little for british bought lemons. For visual instructions see the flickr set here

Find 95% alcohol - easily available in italy
6 lemons to every 500ml alcohol
500g sugar to every 500 ml of alcohol
1litre water to every 500ml alcohol

1. Peel your lemons avoiding the pith as much as possible
2. Put in a large bowl and add your alcohol.
3. Cover and leave for 50 hours
4. Dissolve your sugar in your water over a low heat.
5. Allow the water to cool.
6. Sieve your lemon alcohol and add to the cooled sugar water.
7. Stir, bottle, chill and enjoy!

It’ll nock you’re scurvy to kingdom come.

Just returned from a early morn flight from Italy’s big tomato, Rome, so i’ll make this entry a wee one.

The time I spent with the nuzzaci’s made me appreciate the masterpiece of conversation. An italian conversation moves rather slowly.. you can get the gist of the subject, tune out, and return 10 minutes later to find yourself listening to the same subject, and the same aspect of this subject, being discussed in just as much gusto. What you realise is this snails pace is so that every person can have their say and every possible joke is squeezed out. Rather like the italian conversation is a novel to the frenchman’s poem and the englishman’s short story.

see the conversations in action