{"id":20589,"date":"2020-12-28T17:13:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=20589"},"modified":"2020-12-29T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T17:15:38","slug":"life-island-times-have-a-very-merry-limoncello-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-have-a-very-merry-limoncello-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: Have a Very Merry Limoncello Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Before it gets away from us&#8230;one of the last mornings a Limoncello is appropriate with lunch&#8230;or breakfast!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Vic<br \/>\n28 December 2020<br \/>\nHave a Very Merry Limoncello Christmas<br \/>\nCoastal Empire  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/122820-LIT1.jpg\" alt=\"122820-LIT1\" width=\"299\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/122820-LIT1.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/122820-LIT1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/122820-LIT1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/122820-LIT1-282x281.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><br \/>\nFollowing Thanksgiving, W and I began casting about for various holiday menu sides, entrees, drinks and TV specials to enjoy, when we seized on something we hadn\u2019t done in decades &#8212; making our own after dinner liqueur.  <\/p>\n<p>After some brief internet searching for and discussing candidates, we settled on an old Italian citrus standby &#8212; limoncello.  <\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/122820-LIT2.jpg\" alt=\"122820-LIT2\" width=\"223\" height=\"291\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/122820-LIT2.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/122820-LIT2-215x281.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our pantry and bar contained numerous candidate bottles of assorted vodkas with varying levels of remaining contents.  Without the aid of a computer or app, W was quick to do the math on a sticky that had the above bulleted schedule of milestones.  Further ciphering adjusted the recipe to the vodka supply.  With that programming available our initial underway batch sits atop the wine fridge.  <\/p>\n<p>Unstrained with sugar syrup yet to be added  <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, here\u2019s the recipe  <\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<br \/>\n10 lemons<br \/>\n1 liter vodka<br \/>\n3 cups white sugar<br \/>\n4 cups water<br \/>\nDirections  <\/p>\n<p>Step 1<br \/>\nZest the lemons, and place zest into a large glass bottle or jar. Pour in vodka. Cover loosely and let infuse for one week at room temperature.<br \/>\nStep 2<br \/>\nAfter one week, combine sugar and water in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. Do not stir. Boil for 15 minutes. Allow syrup to cool to room temperature.<br \/>\nStep 3<br \/>\nStir vodka mixture into syrup. Strain into glass bottles, and seal each bottle with a cork. Let mixture age for 2 weeks at room temperature.<br \/>\nStep 4<br \/>\nPlace bottled liqueur into the freezer. When icy cold, serve in chilled vodka glasses or shot glasses.  <\/p>\n<p>Recipe \u00a9 Copyright 2020 allrecipes.com. All rights reserved.  <\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, my lemonheads.  <\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2020 From My Isle Seat   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Before it gets away from us&#8230;one of the last mornings a Limoncello is appropriate with lunch&#8230;or breakfast! &#8211; Vic 28 December 2020 Have a Very Merry Limoncello Christmas Coastal Empire Following Thanksgiving, W and I began casting about for various holiday menu sides, entrees, drinks and TV specials to enjoy, when we seized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20595,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20589\/revisions\/20595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}