"Tracy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
> My only problem is that I cannot get the 95% Everclear in > Massachusetts.
> I can get it in Connecticut. So, whenever a friend visits CT, I ask for a
> couple bottles. The brand is different but > it's 95% alcohol - Graves.

Yes, we use it a lot here. It runs about 10 euro the liter.

I posted the question about the difference on Facebook. Responses were from
some of the leading lights of cooking schools here in Italy. Everyone says
they are the same thing, even if some of the makers think theirs are
different-- and in commercial ones, they are all different qualities, for
sure.

Giusi wrote:
> "Tracy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>> My only problem is that I cannot get the 95% Everclear in > Massachusetts.
>> I can get it in Connecticut. So, whenever a friend visits CT, I ask for a
>> couple bottles. The brand is different but > it's 95% alcohol - Graves.
>
> Yes, we use it a lot here. It runs about 10 euro the liter.
>
> I posted the question about the difference on Facebook. Responses were from
> some of the leading lights of cooking schools here in Italy. Everyone says
> they are the same thing, even if some of the makers think theirs are
> different-- and in commercial ones, they are all different qualities, for
> sure.
>
>

When I was in New Orleans, we picked up another brand - Diesel, I
think it was called. The first batch I made with it got slushy in
the freezer. The second batch - second liter - was fine. Weird.

I think we pay about $22 US per liter or thereabouts maybe a bit more.

-Tracy

"Tracy" > ha scritto nel messaggio >
> Giusi wrote:
>> "Tracy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>>> My only problem is that I cannot get the 95% Everclear in >
>>> Massachusetts.
>> Yes, we use it a lot here. It runs about 10 euro the liter.
>
> When I was in New Orleans, we picked up another brand - Diesel, I think it
> was called. The first batch I made with it got slushy in the freezer. The
> second batch - second liter - was fine. Weird.
>
> I think we pay about $22 US per liter or thereabouts maybe a bit more.

The sin tax. Alcohol is cheap here. I think the government wants us to
forget what they are up to. Euro 10 is about $13.20.

Giusi wrote:
> "sf" > ha scritto nel messaggio > On Mon, 02 Aug 2010

>> I can almost smell it from here! You know how much I like lemon, so>
>> that's another thing I want to try making soon. It sounded pretty
>> easy enough when I questioned some Italians about the process/method.
>> The problem is that they buy their alcohol from the pharmacy and were>
>> emphatic about not using vodka, so I was completely lost on a basic
>> ingredient.
>
> I think Everclear is the version you want. We can buy 95% pure alcohol (not
> proof, % for real) at the supermarket. Vodka makes it bitter and
> undrinkable! There's discussion whether you put sugar in at once or use
> simple syrup once the infusion is done, but at 95% alcohol, I think you
> really have to water it down some. If your Everclear is a lower % you could
> try doing the sugar thing. Also a lot of recipes ask for infusing as long
> as 40 days, but you can get bitterness that way, too. 2 weeks seems to
> taste better.
>
>

Yes, vodka leaches the bitterness from the rind which the Everclear does
not. My daughter brought back a recipe for limoncello from Capri that
works very well. I have also made it with clementine oranges.
Delicious. Grapefruit becomes way too bitter for this recipe.

I will search and post it again.

gloria p

On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:44:54 -0600, "gloria.p" >
wrote:

> I will search and post it again.

YAY, thanks!

--

Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:15:55 -0700, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

>On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:55:33 +0200, "Giusi" > wrote:
>
>>Vodka makes it bitter and
>>undrinkable!
>
>Uh, the limoncello I have made with vodka, was extremely drinkable,
>and not bitter at all!!!

I've made Christine's recipe with vodka and it's splendid! I've been
percolating some for 2 weeks just for this weekend's cookery.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as warm as the wine,
if the wine had been as old as the turkey,
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner." Duncan Hines


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On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:31:55 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:15:55 -0700, Christine Dabney
> > wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:55:33 +0200, "Giusi" > wrote:
>>
>>>Vodka makes it bitter and
>>>undrinkable!
>>
>>Uh, the limoncello I have made with vodka, was extremely drinkable,
>>and not bitter at all!!!
>
> I've made Christine's recipe with vodka and it's splendid! I've been
> percolating some for 2 weeks just for this weekend's cookery.
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

lock up the white men.

your pal,
blake

blake murphy wrote:

> lock up the white men.
>
> your pal,
> blake

lol, hide your kids, hide your wife...
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