Lemon Oil

Basic Recipe 16

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1 litre

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Liam Tomlin

Published 2005

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Ingredients

  • 20 Lemons
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tbls Sugar

Method

Wash the lemons and remove the zest from them over a large bowl to catch all the spray released from the peel. Dissolve the salt and sugar in the lemon juice in a heavy-based pot. Add the oils and lemon zest. Place over a very low heat and gently warm the oil. Remove from the heat and allow the lemon zest to infuse in the oil for 24 hours. Pass it through a sieve lined with a double-layer of mu