Limoncello recipe please

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I’m looking to make lots of homemade food and Christmas gifts this year and would like your limoncello recipes please. I found one on GF but most people said it was more of a syrup than a drink so could I have your advice/recipes please

Adapted from a GYOer on another forum.
Peel the zest of 15 lemons into a Kilner jar and cover with 1 bottle of vodka. Add sugar (maybe 500g - I do some and test at the 40 day stage to see if it needs more).

My adaptation is to add the juice of those lemons as well - and then strain well at the bottling stage. And I reduce the water at the 40 day stage as a result.

Leave in a cool, dark place for 40 days, shaking every few days to make sure all mixes well and sugar dissolves.

After 40 days, add same amount of water as original vodka. Check taste and add more sugar if necessary. Again, shake daily until that’s dissolved. Put away for another 40 days.

Strain out lemon zest and bottle. Serve very cold.

There’s 115 days until Christmas so still time to get it going !🤶😂😂

We used that recipe and ours is very syrupy. I didn't think to add the juice too that's a great tip.

Peel the zest from 5 lemons and put in a big jar with 1 litre of vodka. Give it a shake/swirl every day for a week.
Boil 750g of caster sugar with 700ml of water. Add to jar. Give it a swirl/shake every now and then.
Leave to steep for 40 days. Strain, and bottle up.

Apparently the traditional recipe asks for 95º pure grain alcohol!

I always add less sugar than the original recipe called for as the first lot was too sweet. And the lemon juice adds to the bitterness to counteract the sugar as well. So if you add some, but a lot less than called for, initially - you can always add more to suit (and doing it as a boiled up sugar and water syrup makes sense!) at the halfway stage and get the balance right at that point.