My homemade limoncello recipe is the best and so easy – an old Italian lady told me the trick to cutting the lemons

A LIMONCELLO lover has shared her tried-and-true way to concoct the beloved drink.

She said she learned the key step to the recipe from an "old Italian lady"

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DD (@dishin_withdd) filmed herself making the drink in a viral video on TikTok.

Limoncello is a popular lemon-flavored liqueur often served on its own.

It has its roots in Italy, produced mostly in the south where there's an abundance of citrus fruits.

The lemon-flavored drink is an easy sip — sweet enough to be had as a post-dinner digestif.

HOW IT'S DONE

DD started off by peeling the lemons with an age-old technique.

"See how you have to peel it?" she said while removing the yellow part of the skin from the lemon.

"An old Italian lady once told me, 'no pith, no white.'"

The pith is the softer white skin under the harder yellow outer peel of the lemon.

She place the peels of nine organic lemons in a large jar to start the process.

"Try not to get the pith," she added.

She added a bottle of Everclear to the jar to allow it to marinate for 20 days.

DD recommended giving the jar a good shake every few days for best results.

After the 20 days are up, she mixes it with sugar and filtered water.

"Enjoy," she said, signing off on her simple recipe.

CROWD REACTION

Several TikTok users weighed in on the limoncello technique in the comment section of the viral video.

"You don’t need added preservatives, nothing can survive the Everclear," one wrote.

"OK the Everclear is crazy but a trick from my Italian grandma is to freeze the lemons and use a veggie peeler — helps avoid the pith," another added.

"The best limoncello I ever had used honey instead of sugar," a third commented.

"Thank you for motivating people," yet another wrote. "Making limoncello is the greatest. You also could use a high proof vodka. Thank you for sharing this."

"Little pith isn't too bad, just not a lot of it," one more chimed in.

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