Limonada

During Semana Santa in Ponferrada (and in Leon, it seems), all bars serve limonada, a alcoholic drink based on wine (most often red, but some are white) and similar to sangria. It used to be served with a rosco, which is a (sweat) bread crown made with pork fat (raw lard). Given that the Bierzo wine is made exclusively of mencia grapes for the red and godello for the white, the limonada is typically made with those types of wines. We will be preparing our limonada this week end. You can go out all week and judge all the limonadas (beware the head). A special committee does just that amd on good friday the best limonada is announced.

Ingredients:
1.5 liters of wine
250g sugar
4 dried peaches (we did it in Belgium and couldn’t find dried figs…typically dried figs are used: 100g dried fig. We will probably try with 100g dried peaches and 100g dried figs)
Handful of raisins (100g)
15 grains of coffee
250g lemon
500g oranges
1/2 stick cinnamon
zest of 1 lemon out of 4 of the 250g
zest of 1 orange
Directions:
add everything but the lemon and oranges to the wine
juice lemons and oranges, add juice to the liquid
add the zests
let marinate for at least one night, ideally 24 hours
remove all solids and bottle
serve cold with a a rosco de manteca (coming soon)