Anyone know where I can get frozen and/or concentrated lemon juice? Not those little squeeze bottles, but like the way you buy concentrated orange juice - only with lemon.

I've been Googling margarita recipes and most of them seem to reckon this is the stuff you want in it, but my local stores don't have anything like it :(

whats wrong with the squeeze bottles? just open the lid and pour away :p

you can get good margarita mixes from most bottle shops. just add tequilla!

That is, according to the Internets, how common peasants drink their margaritas!

I've had that margarita mix stuff and quite like it (like you can taste anything after a couple of drinks anyway), but I've set myself a mission to try and make a Good Margarita(tm) so I want to try and get the real shizzle.

I've since read a few other recipes that say just using fresh lime juice is the way to go - pity limes are $10/kg at the moment.

i had the best maragritas ever the other night at this place down in new farm. pity it was my gf's work xmas party and i drank about 12 of them and well you know how it goes....

trog are you using the recipe 3 parts tequilla, 1 part tripple sec, on the rocks. the rim only has lime squezzed on it, so lime slices would be the way to go.

warning! unless this is weakend with a mixer you will get f***eyed.

last edited by infi at 16:31:34 29/Dec/05

You can get lime juice in a squeezie bottle like you can lemon juice, is probably heaps cheaper than buying fresh lime juice. As for lemon concentrate, how about getting lemon cordial? may work ...

that new building complex at indooroopilly where coles (and hogsbreath I think) is that is on the railwayline has an awesome deli next to that coffee shop chain that sells stuff like concentrated lemon and lime juice and heaps of other stuff for cooking. Isnt cheap though.

that new building complex at indooroopilly where coles (and hogsbreath I think) is that is on the railwayline has an awesome deli next to that coffee shop chain that sells stuff like concentrated lemon and lime juice and heaps of other stuff for cooking

Hmm, I went there too and couldn't find anything. They did have an interesting-looking margarita mix though

Surly bottle shops would have some sort of mixer stuff you could use

"an awesome deli" ... if by awesome you mean vastly overpriced then yeah your right.

$10 a kg for limes!

gawd ... everyone I know has a lime tree in their backyard I could bath in the things

Maybe puree your own lemon zest mixed with the lemon juice if you have one of those handheld blenders?

I paid $10 a kilo at woolworths sunnybank hills yesterday for limes :/ Damn coronas.


last edited by Lunch at 19:19:19 29/Dec/05

Yeah, and don't forget kaffir lime leaves ... they're just as good as lime zest ... could probably pound the crap out of them and soak them in lemon juice for a day or so then strain them out ... but seriously it'd be less effort to pay $10/kg :)

just use sorbet

I thought you just get this stuff from supermarkets? It comes in a carton and is best frozen - it may even be in the freezer section of the supermarkets. Might even be home brand too.

have you tried (non wanky fruit requiring) beer?

i hear its nice cold when the days are hot

i recommend vb

have you tried (non wanky fruit requiring) heterosexuality?

ZING!

I thought you just get this stuff from supermarkets? It comes in a carton and is best frozen - it may even be in the freezer section of the supermarkets. Might even be home brand too.

Woolies have a couple brands of orange, home brand orange, orange and mango, and "tropical" - but no lemon :(

Juice a whole lot of lemons and freeze them yourself

The reason it's probably in a lot of recipes online is that it's a pretty common commodity in North America.

During my time in Canada and I imagine the US is the same, I noticed they didnt have much of the regular style cordial that we have here (2 litre bottles of cottees etc) but rather fridges full of these little coke can sized carboard frozen concentrates. There's dozens of different flavours, including orange and lemon and all the usual cordial flavours.

All the home-made margaritas I witnessed while there were made using the various flavours of these.

Dan, totally true. Also, in the US "lemonade" isn't the same as we have over here, but its literally "lemon-ade" - just basically sugared up lemon drink. If you want what we call lemonade, you have to ask for Sprite.

I'd say the lemon concentrate is merely sold out. Try again next week.

I asked for no salt on the margarita, but there was salt, salt! Huge grains of salt around the glass. I won't be leaving a tip!

FCOJ is where its at.