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Victoria Carr's avatar

When my adorable 84-year old father died in 2006 after a blessedly short illness, and I had to clean out his house, I found a number of unopened bottles of Dewar's Blended Scotch Whisky, which presumably people had been giving him for Christmas presents since my mother had died. At the same time a friend of mine who lived in Palm Springs, CA, sent me a box containing forty Meyer lemons plucked from the tree in her yard. I juiced all the lemons and froze the juice, and for as many Saturday nights as long as everything lasted, we had Scotch sours and toasted my dad.

There is a recipe on FOOD52 called First Night in Florence Spaghetti, which is delicious and has 1/2 a Meyer lemon as an ingredient. It's a good use for that lemon!

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Ellen's avatar

I love this. And it sounds like you and your mom have a lovely relationship, which is such a gift. Advice on preserving lemons? I feel like it never quite works out. But I will poke around and see what I can find.

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