Cheese

[mccain788]

Sam  when making your cheese, where do you 

Get the lemons / lemon juice you use?.

[Sam Wilson]

Hi McCain,

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 5:43 PM mccain788 <mcca...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sam  when making your cheese, where do you 

Get the lemons / lemon juice you use?.

We just pick them off our lemon trees out back.  If we didn't have lemon trees, my next choice would be buying some from one of several folks walking around selling lemons to be able to buy a pacha (small 365ml/12oz plastic bottle of guaro/licor) or two.  If those 2 options failed and the local super didn't have any, I do recall finding lemon juice at a large super in Liberia a few years ago.  I think it was at the Jumbo back then.  We went through a lot of lemons when I had the bars and at one point I fancied ourselves as making and selling real cocktails so I had to track down more lemon juice than we could squeeze.  Of course nobody wanted to buy cocktails and after a few weeks, I sadly closed my Old Mr Boston Bartender's Guide, and we went back to selling Imperial and Pilsen.  The closest we ever came to selling cocktails was the occasional Rock Limón or a michelada.  I think I recently saw lemon juice at Mayca, which last year was bought by Sysco -- so they may rebrand at some point.

If you can't find any, I'll bet you could ask your local bartender to buy some extra when they buy them.  Surely they buy them every few days or so from someone. 

Good luck finding some!  

Sam

[Marie Vigil McCain]

after 20 yrs. here I've never saw a (real/mayer ,) lemon  nor tree to purchase this property had a sickly looking one that gave us a few, but a few  years ago it kicked  the bucket . I sure wish  for another  one.

MariAn

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[Sam Wilson]

Hi Marie,

Sorry!  ;-)   I forgot that there are other types of "lemons" in the world that are mostly yellow skinned like the Meyer and the more commonly sold in los EE.UU, the Eureka and Lisbon.  I have not seen those in Costa Rica either.  We've got 2 types of lemon trees, one my wife calls Limón Criollo -- I believe it is a type called Key Lime in English (Citrus aurantifolia).  This is different from the seedless common Persian Lime (Citrus latifolia Tanaka) -- in Costa Rica referred to as Limón Mesina.  I think our others are Limón Mandarina -- sometimes called the Rangpur in English (Citrus × limonia).

I've heard those Meyers grow well in containers.  Perhaps if you find another one you could keep it on the patio or somewhere easier to provide tender loving care?

I suspect you could mail-order some seeds and have them arrive okay.

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Sam

[stephen mcglinn]

I find that lime juice works just fine.

[Sam Wilson]

Stephen,

Yes, I think almost any acid will work for curdling the milk -- it is just a matter of lowering the pH.  I've read where folks use vinegar for this as well.  I suspect the biggest difference would be taste.

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Sam

[stephen mcglinn]

Sam, yes vinegar will work also.

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[mccain788]

Have  a new weekend neighbor ,,has a close to what I want, tree . One fruit rolled down to our lot. I peeled and planted  3 seeds they are doing real good. Will keep them in a container till next green season . Heres hoping

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From: Sam Wilson <sliw...@gmail.com>
Date:09/30/2018 3:03 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: Living in Costa Rica <costa-ri...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Living in Costa Rica] Cheese

Hi Marie,

Sorry!  ;-)   I forgot that there are other types of "lemons" in the world that are mostly yellow skinned like the Meyer and the more commonly sold in los EE.UU, the Eureka and Lisbon.  I have not seen those in Costa Rica either.  We've got 2 types of lemon trees, one my wife calls Limón Criollo -- I believe it is a type called Key Lime in English (Citrus aurantifolia).  This is different from the seedless common Persian Lime (Citrus latifolia Tanaka) -- in Costa Rica referred to as Limón Mesina.  I think our others are Limón Mandarina -- sometimes called the Rangpur in English (Citrus × limonia).

I've heard those Meyers grow well in containers.  Perhaps if you find another one you could keep it on the patio or somewhere easier to provide tender loving care?

I suspect you could mail-order some seeds and have them arrive okay.

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Sam

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 12:33 PM Marie Vigil McCain <mcca...@gmail.com> wrote:

after 20 yrs. here I've never saw a (real/mayer ,) lemon  nor tree to purchase this property had a sickly looking one that gave us a few, but a few  years ago it kicked  the bucket . I sure wish  for another  one.

MariAn

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 9:12 AM Sam Wilson <sliw...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi McCain,

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 5:43 PM mccain788 <mcca...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sam  when making your cheese, where do you 

Get the lemons / lemon juice you use?.

We just pick them off our lemon trees out back.

[Sharon Wallace]

Meyer lemons are hybrids, so a seed won't do.  I saw some several years ago at Viveros Procesa in La Garita, Alajuela.   An all around great place for gardeners.

Sharon

[Berni J]

Sharon has it nailed (like she always does) . . .  Processa (the big farm behind La Garita near the university cutoff) has something they called Verdelle which is an incorrect name and not a lemon variety - big fruits, beautiful yellow lemon zest, about a cup of juice per fruit - we use it to make absolutely fabuloso lemon bars - fotos attached - one of our trees has now 4 gens of fruit from flower to ready to drop simultaneously - probably carrying 100 plus fruits as we speak, Berni

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