Crema di Limoncello

Ingredients

10 lemons

1 bottle Everclear 750-ml

8 cups of milk

5 cups of sugar

1/2 cup of vanilla sugar

Tools

Peeler or Zester

Cheesecloth

Gallon jar with lid

3 – 1 Liter bottles

Directions

1. Peel or zest 10 lemons with an old-fashioned potato peeler or use a zester (yellow only, no white)

2. Place lemon peels/zest in a jar with the 750 ml of Everclear.

3. Make your vanilla Sugar – split a vanilla bean, in a jar of 1/2 cup sugar.

Let #1-3 sit at room temperature for 2 weeks.

After 2 weeks

4. separate peels/zest from the Everclear using the cheesecloth.

5.Warm 8 cups milk over medium heat.

6. stir the sugar and the vanilla sugar into the milk until dissolved.

7.Remove from the heat, for cooling.

7 In a gallon jar, combine the Everclear mixture with the milk and sugar.

8. Funnel into bottles

9.Store and chill in the freezer.

Serve chilled