[izbnso]

Oldschool,
Couple of questions:
Where did you get that beautiful glass jar? (I have a thing for glass) And what kind of lid does it have?
I’ve heard of but never had nor made lemoncello. I have a huge Myer lemon tree in my front yard (they won’t be ripe for several months) and it looks like I’m going to have a large crop this year if no big hurricanes come through. (We lost a few when Gustav blew through the other day.) Are there any general proportions that you use: lemon zest to alcohol and then how much simple syrup (I’m assuming equal parts sugar and water)? We are a family of lemon lovers and this would make an ideal gift for my dear old dad.

I’ve made a few cordials before and had some success with them. The last I made was with wild cherries that I picked from the yard. I had planned on making jelly, but I couldn’t collect enough for that. I felt like Aesop’s fox cursing the abundance just out of reach. Any way, it turned out so nicely that my DH went out and bought a lovely large decanter that he filled with about 75% of the entire yield for this year and promptly gave it to his boss. All I have left is one sad salad dressing decanter with one inch of wild cherry cordial in it.

My other question is one I have been meaning to ask for awhile. How do ya’ll get pictures in your posts? I am techno-inept. It took me quite sometime to figure out how to jigger the pictures so that they fit the size parameters for being posted in the food pictures section (and I’m still not sure that I am doing that the best way) and I have no idea where to even begin to get them in an actual post. HELP.