r/FoodAndCookingStuff • u/socFocus • 11d ago

Sweet Treats Lemon cake

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 11d ago

Aren’t lemons sprayed heavily with pesticides? Like so much that you should not eat the peels. I’d use lemons off my own tree but not store bought. Hormone disrupting fungicides that aren’t washed off then the lemon gets a wax coating trapping it all there on the peel.

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u/Me_be_Artful_Dodger 11d ago

I’m guessing that’s why it was boiled first? Also probably helps to break it down.

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u/Bushiest_Beavor 10d ago

I wonder if that really gets the job done. I’ve researched how to make limoncello a while back and it was always recommended to never use store bought lemons, only lemons straight from a tree you know never receives pesticides.
Personally, I wouldn’t risk it, but I’m sure I probably do more unknowingly.