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dmann wrote:
Ombligo- about to make my first batch of Limoncello. Any tips???
I'm hosting Mother's Day brunch on Sunday and my dad is bringing his fabulous sangria. Can't wait!
DM
Remember that the alcohol will be watered down by the simple syrup. So use at least 100 proof - I'm using grain alcohol, which at 153 proof is as stung as allowed in Florida. By the time it gets made, it will be closer to 70 proof. You don't drink a cocktail glass full, it is meant to be sipped in chilled shot glasses.
Use good quality lemons, remove all the juice and pith possible. Put the rind in a sealed jar with the alcohol, place it in a cool dark place and let it stay there for at least two weeks. Remove the rind and then add the simple syrup. Keep it in the freezer.
You can also do the same with orange peels; actually any citrus - even mix different rinds.
Enjoy
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What a coincidence.
I boxed my peat today.
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I beat my meat.
With a meat tenderizer. Wha'd ya think I meant?
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I dunno, I'll ask Paul Lynde (Hollywood Squares)
[spoiler=Hollywood Squares funniest bits...]
FOR THOSE OF US WHO REMEMBER
Hollywood Squares:
These great questions and answers are from the days when 'Hollywood Squares'
game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted as they are now.
Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course.
Q. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness!
(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the
show!)
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Q. True or False? A pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.
Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think
that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?
A. Rose Marie: No. Wait until morning.
Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.
Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say 'I Love You'?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.
Q. What are 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.
Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands
while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give
you a gesture you'll never forget.
Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.
Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get
any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries!
Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.
Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps.
One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.
Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.
Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.
Q. When you pat a dog on the head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?
Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.
Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the
habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.
Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn't neglected.
Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what
was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.
Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?
Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.
Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has
actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet.
Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point. And laugh.
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Thanks for the laughs *(:>*
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I just brewed a batch of Noble Trappist Ale tonight...can't wait to try it. And opened my first bottle of Brown Ale that was brewed a month and a half ago, still a little "green", but another week or two will mellow it out enough for me.
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For those of you who live in states where 190 proof Everclear is illegal, find someone in the military to get it for you. It' still sold on military installations in those states.
The higher concentration of alcohol does a better job of extracting the essential oils from things the oils since the non-polar oils are attracted to the non-polar end of the alcohol molecule.
