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pure kona[_2_]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:25:00 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

>On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 6:38:54 AM UTC-7, Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 7/30/2014 9:23 AM, Kalmia wrote:
>>
>> > Ditto on lemon juice. I bought the huge bottle without thinking
>> > and rarely use it - I hit a lemon and lime bonanza and my my freezer's
>> > full of the real thing,
>>
>> No substitute, in my opinion.
>>
>> > kept in 1 oz. containers. Maybe i"ll just dump the reconstituted junk.
>>
>> I bet it would make a great dishwasher or toilet cleaner.
>
>Whoa!
>
>Give it to someone who makes jam. Many recipes call for lemon juice, and
>the commercial stuff is reliably 5% acidity.
>
>We tried freezing Meyer lemon juice once, when the neighbor gave us
>a bag one December. It did not compare to fresh squeezed.
Meyer Lemon is sweeter than regular lemons. I once read that you
should never make a lemon meringue pie with Meyer Lemons because the
flavor was not as good and perhaps it was too sweet, along with the
sugar that's called for in the recipe..

aloha,
Cea who has a prolific Meyer lemon tree