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Recipies for making life sweeter

Limoncello

Home-made limoncello[lang_it]Ecco la ricetta del limoncello, il liquore “sudista” italiano, così come suggerita dal babbo Paolo.

Ingredienti:

  • 1 l di alcool etilico
  • 4-6 bucce di limone (dipende dalle dimensioni dei limoni)
  • 1,5 l di acqua
  • 1 kg di zucchero

Preparazione

Si toglie la pelle dei limoni (la buccia sottile senza il bianco) e si mette a macerare nell’alcool puro versato in un recipiente chiuso per circa 10-12 giorni, quindi si filtra l’alcool, ottenendo il concentrato del limoncello.

Scaldare quindi l’acqua e scioglierci lo zucchero.

Dopo aver lasciato raffreddare la mistura acqua e zucchero, versarci il concentrato e mescolare, quindi imbottigliare. La bevanda è pronta. Salute!

Nota: utilizzando più o meno acqua si può cambiare la gradazione del limoncello.[/lang_it][lang_fi]Tässä limoncellon (etelä-italialainen jälkiruokalikööri) valmisteluohjeet niin, kuin iskäni Paolo minulle kertoi.

Aineet:

  • 1 litra pirtua
  • sitruunakuorta (4-6 sitruuna koosta riippuen)
  • 1,5 litraa vettä
  • 1 kilo sokeria

Valmistaminen

Laitetaan pirtua lasi- tai muovitölkkiin, ja sinne lisätään sitruunan kuorta (pelkästään ulkokuorta, eli keltäinen ohut osa, ilman sisäistä valkoista).

Suljetaan tölkki ja odotetaan 10-12 päivää, sitten siivilöidään se (esim. teesihdillä)

Lämmitetään vettä niin kauan, kuin pystyy sulattamaan siihen sokeria.

Annetaan veden ja sokerin sekoitus jäähdyttää ja sitten sekoitetaan pirtun kanssa. Pulloitetaan. Juoma on valmis. Kippis!

Huom.: veden määrä voi olla vähemmän tai enemmän, liköörin vahvuuden mukaisesti.

Limoncello maistuu parhaiten kylmänä.[/lang_fi][lang_en]Here comes a recipe to prepare limoncello, a Southern Italian dessert liquor, as my dad Paolo told me.

Ingredients:

  • 1 litre of pure alcohol
  • lemon rind (4-6 lemons depending on their size)
  • 1,5 litre of water
  • 1 kg of sugar

Preparation

Put the alcohol in a glass or plastic jar, and add the lemon rind (just the yellow part, without the white internal part).

Close the jar and wait for 10-12 days, then filter the concentrate (e.g. with a tea strainer).

Heat up the water and mix the sugar in it in order to have it completely melted.

Cool down the mixture and add the concentrate to it stirring all the time. Bottle it. You’re done: cheers!

Note: The quantity of water can be more or less depending on the alcoholic strength you want to get.

Limoncello tastes best if really cold.[/lang_en]

Florentine schiacciata

Firenzeläinen schiacciataHere is a recipe for a typical Tuscan carnival cake. I’m sorry I can provide you only the version in Finnish. Well, a good way to improve your knowledge of such a beautiful language. Why? Because one day it will be a world language, as Richard Lewis has explained in this article.

Now also in English!!!

"Schiacciata alla fiorentina" 

Ingredients:

  • 12 tablespoons of flour
  • 9 level tablespoons of sugar
  • 8 tablespoons of cold milk
  • 6 tablespoons of oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon of baking powder
  • grated rind of 2 big oranges (and some of their juice if you like)

Heat the oven at 180 degrees. Pour flour, sugar and the orange grated rind in a bowl. Add then the eggs, oil and milk. Mix as far as the dough gets a uniform colour, and then add the baking powder. Mix again for a bit.

Pour the dough in a rectangular baking (30 x 20 cm) tin covered by waxed paper.

Put the tin in a hot oven for 20 minutes, or as long as the surface color have turned light-brown. The cake is ready. Let it chill out and sprinkle with icing sugar.

Eat it all! Better if served with a glass (or two) of Vin Santo.

Original recipe by granma Bianca.

Lemon cake

lemoncake

Ingredients:
  • 3 eggs
  • 2½ dl sugar
  • 5 dl wheat flour
  • 1½ ts baking powder
  • 1 ts vanilla sugar
  • 1 dl lemon juice
  • 150 g butter or margarine
  • 1 lemon grated rind

Whip eggs and sugar as to make a foam. Mix the baking powder and the vanilla sugar with the flour and add the compound in the foam alternating it with the lemonjuice and the melted butter. Add finally the grated rind of a well washed lemon and mix uniformly. Pour the pastry in a buttered cake tin and cook it in the oven at 175 °C in the lowest level for 45 minutes.