The lemon trees and the 'Limoncello' Naples

Visiting Naples you can't help admiring the 'monumental landscape ,specially in spring and summer.If you may be happen to find on your way a lemon tree, very probable thing if you go to Posillipo,and try to go a little more closely ......you  sure will remain in a defence position as when a plant of roses ,particularly in May, is on your sight.You may be tempted by the will to collect most of the flowers, so eternal ,but the thorns of the rose scare you for a while.So one thing remains to do ...to enjoy the show the nature gives to you .In the same way the lemon plant, still young,get you at a certain distance because of the disturbing thorns so reinforced by the vitality of the very special moment. you try to get the round and full fruit so yellow ,so porous and inviting ,so fragrant; you try to gather some leaves, but the pointed thorns frighten you and you, captured by the flavour of the Mediterraneo ,gather just one leave.... thanks to the fortune.The skin of the finger is imbued of the fragrant smell so sweet and sharp at the same time .The one who refuses will offer later.....the bizzare laws of love for the thorned plants get the relatinship strong and then..  weak .The plants seem to appear as essential part of an universal rythm expressed through a fundamental idea: the one who refuses , later on will offer; the one who escape later on will follow. The visitors from all over the world , when do come to visit Naples with interest for the habits and the neapolitain tastes, flavours, can't help  asking to drink what that disturbing plants produce thanks to their solar and happy fruits :the lemon fruits.They ask for the 'Limoncello' a sort of sweet liquor that due its origin to the lemons of Capri and the cleverness of a family  able to make famous this liquor all over the world.The request ,after a good lunch or an happy dinner spent in Ischia, Capri or Sorrento ,Amalfi is:'Please may I have a little bit of limoncello?'. The yellow fruit has won once again! It'is very easy to prepare this liquor ,even at home but what you need is the lemon of the neapolitan coast, the water so special in Naples , the sugar  more sweet when you are on holiday ......I think it's better to visit Naples and after chocolate and nut slice of cake called 'caprese' you'll ask for a little bit of cold limoncello! The yellow, solar and Happy fruit won't never let you go away....he has won once again!

limone: citrus limonum belongs to the   Citracee family ; it is well known for its antirheumatic and antiscorbutic properties.It is  a good remedy for the gout, the arteriosclerosis,for its high level of vitamine c in its juice. The fresh juice is gifted with a strong  antiseptic power  and it is used to disinfect foul water and to eliminate inflammations.Good for gargle .The fruit contains: citric acid,peptine, limonene ,pinene, fellandrene.

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